White Lie Quotes

• Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Honesty, Liars

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• White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

  William S. Paley

  Lying, White, Introducing

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• I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Hurt, Lying, Feel Better

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

  Lucy Hale

  Lying, White, Here And There

  "An In-Depth Conversation With the Cast of ‘Pretty Little Liars’". Interview with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, bullettmedia.com. March 12, 2012.

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• A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

  Matthew Lesko

  Lying, Communication, White

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• She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

  Margot Asquith

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Lying

  In Listener 11 June 1953 "Margot Oxford: a Personal Impression" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter

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• In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Honesty, Lying, Simple

  "13th Article simple yet powerful" by Chris Morales, www.ldschurchnews.com. September 21, 2007.

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• I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Trust, Cheating

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heartbreak, Truth, Lying

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Liars, Lying

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.657, Hamilton Books

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• A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Lying, White

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

  James Gibbons

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  James Gibbons (1896). “The Ambassador of Christ”

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• I like the idea of what happens when someone tells a small white lie - which I think is the premise of the show - and how it has ripple effects, so really it's also about raising the stakes of this little lie.

  Darren Star

  Lying, Thinking, Ripple

  Source: variety.com

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• There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, White, Black

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• If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be. Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Girl, Being Yourself, Strong

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• The average person tells a few white lies.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Lying, Average, White

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• There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

  Ayn Rand

  Lying, White, Destruction

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.657, Hamilton Books

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• Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you really mean: 'Wow, you're really ugly in person.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Thank You, Mean

  Jimmy Fallon, the Writers of Late Night (2011). “Thank You Notes”, p.181, Hachette UK

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• Don't expect me to be perfect. Despite all my lives, I'm still only human. I can't deliver perfection, and I'll only disappoint you. But I want you to know that you are the most important person to me. I'm trying to protect you. Sometimes I screw things up. I may even tell a white lie every now and then. But you have to give me the benefit of the doubt.

  Kirsten Miller

  Lying, White, Giving

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• An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

  M. Scott Peck

  Lying, Order, White

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The Different Drum: Community-making and peace”, p.88, Random House

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• A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

  Ricky Gervais

  Lying, White, World

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• So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.

  Bobby Vee

  Lying, Eye, Night

  Song: The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

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• All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

  Frederick Marryat

  Lying, White, Differences

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• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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