Anthony Trollope Quotes

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?

It's a moral question.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, because they expect to get something by their true speaking, and to be trusted afterwards in more important matters. Thus, though their conduct is so opposite, the end of both is alike. If there were no gain to be got, your true-speaking man would tell untruths as much as your liar, and your liar would tell the truth as much as your true-speaking man.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

Conscience is better served by a myth.

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.