Is honesty always the best policy?

Is the value of telling the truth, be decent, modest, reasonable, fair or honest. From a philosophical point of view is a human quality that is to act according as it thinks and feels. Since we are little our parents or in the school teach us different kind of values but the most important is the honesty, why? The tell us that if you want to be a better or a successful person you have to be honest always, but to tell the truth is always correct and possible?  Maybe sometimes we think that this is impossible or a few people can be honest in their entire life.

Sometimes a person that is special for you, maybe a friend, your family, a teacher, a neighbor, etc. ask you something about his appearance and you have to be delicate about your answer, you don´t want to hurt them, and you say a “white lie”. We think that in that moment is good to tell a little lie.

In other times is good to be honest maybe in a project, a person tell you any idea, and you think that is bad, so you have to tell them that you can do another thing, maybe if you do that the project  will be perfect and everyone can shine in their abilities.

I think that you have to be honest because if that person is special for you, is not correct that you  say a “white lie” in this way you hurt them anyway but they don´t know them, if you say the truth both can be better.