Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

Lying can never save us from another lie.

When you lie there's always going to be a consequence. Lying never wins at the end.

I'm a really bad liar.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.