In the second part of Goethe’s Faust, published in 1832, Mephisto tells a former student: Du weißt wohl nicht, mein Freund, wie grob du bist? You do not seem to know, my friend, how rude you are. The young man, the Baccalaureus, answers: Im Deutschen lügt man, wenn man höflich ist. In German, one lies when one is polite. The line became a common quotation about German bluntness, but the scene mocks the arrogant young man who says it. In 1986 the linguist Harald Weinrich received the Konrad Duden Prize. His speech asked whether one lies in German when one is polite, and he argued that politeness is part of normal language use.