Quotes About Honesty

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.

I seldom lie,' he said.

Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99

All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It's only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The

I dislike a man who's not precise about what he wants to drink," said Maugham. "You can't rely on a fellow who's vague about his favorite tipple. If he's not precise about something he's going to drink then it's clear he's not going to be precise about anything.

The interesting thing about the rich is that they like being told where to get off. They confuse it with honesty

It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God's name is truth.

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity

But we're left stunted, compromised, by the burden of having to always lie and censor ourselves.

I need to say everything before I die, I cannot die carrying this secret, this amazing secret.

La vérité, ça peut couper les mains et laisser des entailles à ne plus pouvoir vivre avec, et la plupart d'entre nous, ce qu'on veut, c'est vivre.

Je mes suis entendu lui dire que c'était vrai, qu'il était responsable de cela, mais de cela seulement.

Qui n'a plus qu'un moment a vivre N'a plus rien a dissimuler

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

politically incorrect—another word for honest

No war in American history is in greater need of a politically incorrect—another word for honest—treatment than the Vietnam War, because the people who misreported the war, hammered vile lies about it into our national consciousness, and now tout its supposed "lessons" are the very same people who created "political correctness" in the first place.

love you, too, Dan. And I'm not so much of a cop that you can't trust me with anything.