See, if you'd just learned the art of the useful, harmless lie, you'd never have been in the situation.

'Katia,' she says, repeating the harmless lie Gilles has written in the members' register.

"It's a harmless lie."

It is a harmless lie, one that matters not at all, but that is why it is fun to tell it.

It is profitable to separate the harmless lies from the vital ones.

It was a harmless lie, for she could see that Alida was a little ashamed.

It was a harmless lie, they'd almost decided.

And occasionally he has been accused of more than a harmless white lie.

There is no such thing as a harmless lie no matter how small it is.

He felt only sadness when he realized his oldest friend needed the same harmless lies.