Quotes About Honesty

There was an eccentric editor of the Hansard , the official record of parliamentary debates in Britain. One day, goes the story, an angry member of Parliament stormed into the office of this editor, threw an open copy of the paper on the table, and said to him: "I never said that!" To which the editor replied quite calmly: "I know you didn't, but you should have.

crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked.

Love is a commitment. Love is not just saying something, but doing something about what you say. Anybody can say the word, but few actually say it and live it.

Political leaders, who use the tools of mass propaganda to create a sense of faux intimacy with citizens, no longer need to be competent, sincere, or honest. They need only to appear to have these qualities. Most of all they need a story, a personal narrative.

Moral courage is the courage to act and to speak the truth.

Paine's power, like Orwell's and Baldwin's, lay in his refusal to be anyone's propagandist. He told people, even people who supported him, what they often did not want to hear.

You have to do that every day, whether you're playing football or just in life in general. You've got to look yourself in mirror, and say, 'Hey, this what I'm not doing right.'

I like who I am, trying to handle myself with integrity, character, honesty, treat people well and how I would like to be treated. And as long as I do those things, I can look at myself in the mirror and be proud of who I am at the end of each day.

I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

You have to look in the mirror and really have an honest conversation with yourself and find the discipline to not eat things that don't agree with you.

It's very hard to look at the man in the mirror. Because you can't hide anything.

Anthony Weiner lied to the country about his sexual misconduct online. He also lied to me.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.

I would like to say that to mislead the youth is not only deceit but a crime.

I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.

I speak very quickly, even for an elected public servant. So if I fast-talk you, I'm not trying to mislead you.

We need to create a sense of shame about racism, and about leaders who deliberately mislead and lie.

People who purposefully mislead the public about issues as important as our kids' education have absolutely no place at the table.

If you're misleading the little homies, you ain't no real big homie to me.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

I will not be misquoted!

If you misquote me, I'll come out and be like, they misquoted me. This is what I said. This is exactly how I meant it. Whether you believe me or not, don't really care.