"When I make a mistake everyone can..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.”
“The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.”
“Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.”
More on Honesty
“A cat has absolute honesty.”
“The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.”
“Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.”
More on Deception
“It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.”
“All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.”
“A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.”