A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
Quotations
Lie
Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies.
-Yin Chih Wen
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
-Terri Guillemets
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
-Tennessee Williams
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No man should talk one way with his lips and think another way in his heart.
-The Talmud
"Baba Metzia 49"
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
If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
