Quotes About Honesty

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she'd never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that he'd put her life in order. What she felt for Bram was messy, honest, and soul-deep. He felt like…part of her, the best and the worst. Like someone she wanted to struggle through life with; share triumphs and catastrophes; share holidays, birthdays, every days

Cut the crap and tell me what color panties you're wearing.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

That's not fair. I like lying to you. It makes my life easier.

One way to grab your power is to learn when you need to step up to the plate and admit you're wrong, and when you need to dig in your heels because it's the right thing to do." -- Sugar Beth, Ain't She Sweet

Si alguien te dice que estás muy guapo cuando te enfadas, miente.

No puedo resistirme a ti —dijo Alex con suavidad—. ¿Lo sabes, no? Y ya me he cansado de fingir lo contrario —adoptó una expresión de profunda preocupación—. Pero no te amo, Daisy, y no puedes hacerte una idea de cuánto lo siento, porque si tuviera que amar a alguien, sería a ti.

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words "I love you" are not enough to make up for that. Don't kid yourself that they are.

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

We betray ourselves, don't we? In the end, we have no need for enemies.

The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.

Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.