The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them

You have a choice," she told the class. "The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors of truth.

...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

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