Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Is a lie still a lie
if you say it pretty?

A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.