Quotes About Honesty

Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by not owning up to shortcomings.

No one with real integrity tries to sell their integrity to you. People with real integrity hardly notice they have it.

He kept his eyes down. He was hiding nothing, but the truth is no servant to man. You can't make someone believe you just by telling the truth any more than you can make the truth false just by not believing it.

How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

I don't mind being shot at. It's having a government that lies to me that I hate.

Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren't lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.

He talked about how people always obsess about lies. Damn lies, But no one really understands that the real danger is truth.

Lydia asked, "Do you have a problem with drugs and alcohol?" Claire struggled to return the glass to the floor. "Yes. The problem is that I don't like them very much.

sing the hokey pokey of her life story, where she put the truth in, pulled a lie out, added an embellishment, and shook it all about.

As I expected, Paul immediately apologized for not asking me whether or not he could date Claire. He is nothing if not a good mimic of appropriate behaviors. Had we been in person rather than on the telephone, I am certain he would've dropped to bended knee as he asked for my permission. But he wasn't, so it was his voice that conveyed the respect and feeling. Conveyed.

If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.

political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth

Even truth can be deceptive, whatever its appearance.

Before we left, Seija asked if I felt any cosmic powers. I wanted to say yes, but I hadn't, so I decided to be honest with her. She seemed disappointed by this news.

is no greater bane to friendship than adulation, fawning, and flattery.' Cicero.

Trust isn't a gift, Cameron. You earn it, and it's not cheap.

I think I would rather just live my life," Teddy said, "not make an artifice of it.

it was one of those questions you couldn't ask in case he were to tell the truth.

Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.