A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Quotations
Lie
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
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 am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
