That’s what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth.

There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in Incubus Dreams

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is uncertain of himself.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in Guilty Pleasures

Be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in A Stroke of Midnight

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

—Austin O'Malley

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

—Samuel Johnson

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

—Wilson Mizner

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

—Edgar Watson Howe

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

—George Orwell