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"
Quotations
Lie
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
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
