Quotes About Honesty

You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.

If it's convenient to love you, you're lying to someone about who you are or what you need.

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does

Grandfather could've declared bankruptcy and not pay back his debts. That's the trouble with the Oyamas. They want to act big and generous and honest with the outsiders. They want to put up a big face at the expense of their children.

A? vrea s? st?m odat? de vorb?. Dar a? vrea s? st?m de vorb? deschis, a?a cum vorbeam alt?dat?.

Comedy is life, built big perhaps, but always built true.

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

Surely, she says, encouraging others to lie on our behalves must be a worse sin than lying ourselves.

Això d'animar les altres a mentir en benefici nostre ha de ser un pecat més greu que el de mentir nosaltres mateixes.

No trobeu que la mentida de fer veure que es perdona amb paraules però no de cor és més greu que el simple fet de no perdonar?

I look at the boys, asleep, unconscious to be exact, and plead silently with them to tell me the truth.

Quan a algú li agrada molt una cosa és molt difícil que la mantingui en secret, oi?, ha dit.

Ljudi se me?usobno varaju, lažu jedni drugima u lice, obmanjuju se laskanjem i prozirno pretvorljivim udvaranjem, a to im ?esto poštenoljudski izgleda nerazmjerno hrabrije nego da jedni drugima kažu golu istinu.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

Secrets tear you apart.

There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need, Morrie said. You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard.

A funeral is no place for secrets.

You should never construct a lie based on a child's questions. It is like writing music based on cymbal crashes.

It takes a special strength to take care of a child, Chika, and a whole different strength to admit you cannot.

Secrets, they'll tear you apart.

He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too.

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.

There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. "The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?" What? "Offering others what you have to give." You