Sarah Dessen Quotes

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

"So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."

Plain lies are dangerous.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

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

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

No lie can live forever.

I'm not a particularly good liar.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

I don't lie," I lied.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.