“The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.”
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
“What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked.“I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said.“Have you known me to lie before?”“The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.”
“It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.”
“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. In fact, they prefer it.”
“It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.”