Quotes About Honesty

We are betrayed by what is false within

There is no comfort in the truth , pain is all you find.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Thiel concluded that "greed is far preferable to envy: It is less destructive (I'd rather live in a society where people don't share than in one where they try to take what belongs to everybody else) and it is more honest.

one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.

Warum sollte der Tod einen Mann ehrlicher oder gar klüger machen? Die Toten sind wahrscheinlich dumme Kerle, die sich unaufhörlich beklagen - die Erde ist zu kalt, mein Grabstein sollte größer sein, warum hat er mehr Würmer als ich...

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

George R.R. Martin

The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice...

True knights protect the weak." He snorted. "There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can't protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don't ever believe any different." Sansa backed away from him. "You're awful." "I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.

You lie," he said. "All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it … though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it? - Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.