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Quotes About Honesty

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
~ Eliza Cook
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
~ Frederic W. Farrar
If any good results to a man from believing a lie, it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.
~ Margaret Collier Graham
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
False in one thing, false in everything
~ Law Maxim
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
~ Lord Chesterfield
A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.
~ Bible
O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
~ William Shakespeare
Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
~ Bible
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
~ Jean Paul Richter
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
~ John Dryden
Give me the avowed, the erect, and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
~ George Canning
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
~ Syrus
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.
~ Spanish proverb
Give me the avowed, the erect and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, oh save me from the candid friend!
~ George Canning
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
~ Antisthenes
Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.
~ Chinese proverb
If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.
~ Greek proverb
I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.
~ Dorothy Uhnak
Words gain credibility by deed.
~ Terence
Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
~ Moliere