Berthold Auerbach Quotes

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

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

I am not honest.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

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

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

What is earnest is not always the truth.

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

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

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

I'm not a particularly good liar.

I don't talk for the sake of talking and I don't talk with a forked tongue.

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.