Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
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"
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
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"
