People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. – Richard J. Needham

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

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

It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. – Homer Simpson, The Simpsons