Jean Paul Quotes

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about 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.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

A lie cannot live.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

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

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.'

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

… they seem to be such as would not swear, whore, nor be drunk, but they would lie, cozen and deceive.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.