The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
Quotations
Lie
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"
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
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
Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
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
