Joseph Joubert Quotes

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

I have little time for sincerity.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They lie to their bosses, they lie to their families, they lie to themselves, they lie so much they don't even know they're lying anymore. If you have the courage to be honest even a little bit all those people will hate you for it, because their lie is reflected in your honesty. Oscar Wilde wasn't kidding when he said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

You never monkey with the truth.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

I abhor hypocrisy.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?