“Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.”

“Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.”

“But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.”

“Please don't lie to me, unless, you're sure I'll never find out the truth.”

“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please — that is as they please or displease us.”

“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”

“Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.”

“As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.”

“Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.”

“I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility — I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.”