The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Lie
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"
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
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"
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
