I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Lie
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
"A Little Book in C Major"
Great liars are also Great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler
Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
-Robert Brault
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
-Robert Paul “Tad” Williams
When you lie, tell big lies because in the big lie, there is always a certain force of credibility.
-Adolf Hitler
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"
