Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. – Stephen Vincent Benet

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. – Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916

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

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. – Aristotle