We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
-Robert Paul “Tad” Williams
Quotations
Lie
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-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"
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
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
