Quotes About Honesty

Luke the Drifter: Play me the saddest song you got. Frankie Presto: Why do you want to hear a sad song? Luke the Drifter: They're more true than the happy ones

So he said it now, a true sentence for a false reason.

I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

From these articles of my confession you can imagine others to my discredit. But whatever I make myself out to be, provided that I show myself as I am, I am fulfilling my purpose.

Scientific objectivity is not the absence of initial bias. It is attained by frank confession of it.

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.

Abel,' she said after a moment, 'do you think that I am beautiful?' She had gone to the opposite wall and turned. She leaned back with her hands behind her, throwing her head a little in order to replace a lock of hair that had fallen across her brow. She sucked at her cheeks, musing. 'No, not beautiful,' he said.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Talk about what you know and you won't get so angry

If you can't tell your own family how you feel, then what's the point in having one? I shook my head. I've been here before with 'family.' I just thought this one was different.

So he found it a relief and a delight to be treated with something less than royal respect. Meg's shafts of wit were never cruel, and she aimed them most often at herself. Trevyn had seen her with the wolves; he knew her courage. Her merciless honesty concerning her own shortcomings was a different kind of courage, he thought, and he admired her for it.

An open enemy is better than a false friend. —Greek proverb

No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

I'm not stupid, nor a liar," I said, "and if I can't do any good, I can at least do something

There's no kindness in offering false hope.

I had a feeling the Summoning wasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.

A servant is easy to make dishonest when they bring you coin and never touch any themselves," he said. "Let her feel that her fortune rises with yours.

I don't like to be coarse, but if I did, I would be! -Granby commenting on something Rankin has said.

I'm sorry, I said, feeling stupid in the way I'm sorry always feel stupid when you mean it.

I had a feeling the 'Summoning' wasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.

Better to make no bargain than a bad one, and be thought of forever as an easy mark.