Top 1200 White Lies Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.
Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.
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
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.
I see lies everywhere - switch on the television, it's lies. Everything is lies. In the art world or science community, we are intellectuals, people who research, who are interested in learning and thinking. I think the level of lies is way lower than when you step into what I call "the outside world".
The perjurer's mother told white lies.
Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.
Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.
We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.
When I was in New York for 'White's Lies,' I saw 'American Idiot' and 'Hair.' I loved both of those.
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.
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. — © E. W. Howe
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
When you love someone, or when someone is special to you, there are situations where little white lies are necessary.
When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
White lies are ushers to black ones.
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.
The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.
She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.
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.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!
The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.
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.
White in the moon the long road lies.
Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity - whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth - to justify the brutal assaults against black people of all genders.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage of ethnicity. Activists' constant stress on white privilege can lead to an unhealthy defensive posture of white victimhood.
The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.
I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically. — © Enrique Iglesias
I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.
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!
The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.
...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
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.
There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.
They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. — © Benjamin Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies P.S. He never kissed an ugly girl.
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it lies instinctively, lies because its nature does not allow it to do anything else.
Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.
So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.
Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.
I lie to my children every day. Just little things to get them out the door when the school run is happening. White lies.
The average person tells a few white lies.
And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."
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