A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to tell a lie well.
Of course I lie to people. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. Adolf Hitler Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.