White Lie Quotes

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. I was being economical with the truth.

It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.

Know that a lie is not haram [wrong] in itself, but only because the evil conclusions to which it leads the hearer, making him believe something that is not really the case.... If a lie is the only way of obtaining a good result, it is permissible.... We must lie when truth leads to unpleasant results.

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

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

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

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

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

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