I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Lie
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
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
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-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"
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
