Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Lie
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
