Quotes About Honesty

You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time." He put two fingers on her left breast. "Even here. In your heart. Can you do that? Can you be my daughter in your heart?" "I . . ." I do not know, my lord, she almost said, but that was not what he wanted to hear. Lies and Arbor gold, she thought. "I am Alayne, Father. Who else would I be?

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

The madness of mercy," Ned admitted. "Ah," said Varys. "To be sure. You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.

Am I still a thief if I put it all back and no one ever knows?

A thief was a thief, whether he stole a little or a lot.

Si media cebolla está podrida, la cebolla está podrida. Un hombre es bueno o malo...

My tongue lied my eyes shouted the truth.

Are you blind or bought?

I'm the same as you. The only difference is, I don't lie about what I am. So kill me, but don't call me a murderer while you stand there telling each other that your shit don't stink.

A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them...

Theon swept his cloak off its peg and over his shoulders. "Fathers are like that," he admitted as he pinned the folds with a silver clasp. "Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I've fucked you, you're likely with child. It's not every man who has the honor of raising a king's bastard.

That brought the smile back to the old woman's face. "This one at least is honest," she announced, "but you, ser … I have known a dozen Westerosi knights and a thousand adventurers of the same ilk, but none so pure as you would paint yourself. Men are beasts, selfish and brutal. However gentle the words, there are always darker motives underneath. I do not trust you, ser.

I have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine," Ned said, "but that was not one of them.

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight.

Words are wind, and men will lie to get their way, as any maid could tell you.

You lie," he said. "All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one 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.

The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth,

I'm not afraid to die." It was only half a lie.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

Yet, if he would not lie, what could he write but truth?

all I have done is speak the truth. Are men so fragile they cannot bear to hear it?

Why does a bear shit in the woods?" he demanded. "Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man

All I've done is speak the truth. Are men so fragile they cannot bear to hear it?

now?" Theon seldom prayed at all, but that was not something you confessed