“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
“It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.”
“In the essence of truth lies deceit.”
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.”
“There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!”
“Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.”