I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
There are three types of lies -- lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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