Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological
-Robert Brault
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
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
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"
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
