But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that. — Lucy Hale
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
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion. — William S. Paley
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. — Matthew Lesko
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie. — Richard Gere
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. — Margot Asquith
Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it — Eric Ambler
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots. — Mark Twain
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. — Austin O'Malley
Never lie unless you have to, and if you don’t have a dang good lie, stick to the truth. — American Proverbs
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Tell a lie and the truth will come to light. — Filipino Proverbs
A lie cannot live. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. — Orson Scott Card
White Lie Image Quotes
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Little White Lie Quotes
Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore! — Milton Berle
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
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
Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.
Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence. — George Leigh Mallory
We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man. — John Oliver Killens
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
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
O beautiful white land,
olives and wild anemone and violet
mingled among the shale,
and purple wings
of little winter-butterflies
say, here Psyche, the soul, lies. — Hilda Doolittle
Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.' — Muhammad Ali
So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes. — Bobby Vee
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. — David Antin
Why Tell Lies Quotes
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much. — Penelope Cruz
If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied. — Rudyard Kipling
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do. — John Cusack
Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone who lies to you.
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. — Eric Carr
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth? — Jean Rostand
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness. — R. Scott Bakker
If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.
Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies? — Alice Munro
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’. — John Steinbeck
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. — Hunter S. Thompson
A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain. — Bill Cosby
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. — William Shakespeare
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return. — Katharine Hepburn
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Advertising is legalized lying.
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. — Oscar Wilde
When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off. — George Michael
Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first. — Meyer Lansky
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. — Al Pacino
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. — Louis Pasteur
A lie has many variations, the truth none.
There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win. — James Hunt
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. — Thomas Sowell
Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself. — Tony Gaskins
Our greatest weaknes lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just on more time.
A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth. — Richard Pryor
A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral. — Christopher Hitchens
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. — Martha Graham
If I tell you I'm good, you probably will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying. — Bruce Lee
When You Lie Quotes
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. — Tecumseh
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about. — Rumi
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender. — Corrie Ten Boom
Hurt me with the TRUTH but never comfort me with a LIE!
Well you know you’re really dedicated to something when you lie about being hurt so no one will make you stop — Richie McCaw
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. — George R. R. Martin
The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love. — Charles Fillmore
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. — Hafez
I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth. — River Phoenix
Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce? — Leonard Ravenhill
The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts. — Neal Cassady
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! — Mark Twain
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless. — William Wordsworth
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town. — Robert Bridges
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches. — Herman Melville
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. — Unknown
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. — Jesse Ventura
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying. — Marcus Garvey
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people. — Dinesh D'Souza
You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary. — Will Rogers
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies. — Billy Gibbons
The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies. — Arthur Murray
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. — Harper Lee
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. — James Gibbons
All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies. — Robert Redford
I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty. — Johnny Carson
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. — Karl Kraus
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul. — Henry Ward Beecher
America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one-it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo-Saxons and Protestants. — Harold Cruse
Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years. — Alex Haley
Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;
No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
These are days when ancients held a rite
Of expiation for the old year's ill,
And prayer to purify the new year's will. — Helen Hunt Jackson
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
All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away. — Charles Dickens
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand
The average person tells a few white lies. — Zooey Deschanel
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. — June Jordan
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle. — Elmer Kelton
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them. — Chief Joseph
I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you. — Kazimir Malevich
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth. — Ernest Gaines
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