A liar lies to himself as well as to the gods. Lying is the origin of all evils; it leads to rebirth in the miserable planes of existence, to breach of the pure precepts, and to corruption of the body.
-Maharatnakuta Sutra 27
Quotations
Lie
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
-Hannah Arendt
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-Charles Edward Montague
"Disenchantment"
