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Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.