I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-John Gotti
Quotations
Lie
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
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
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
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
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
-Robert Brault
