Quotes About Honesty

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

but he has never played the demagogue.

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity.

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy.  Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears...

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy.

Le mensonge n'a jamais paru répréhensible à Mouchette, car mentir est le plus précieux, et sans doute l'unique privilège des misérables.

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears...

Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I might well be your father. How old are you?" "I am turned seventeen." "Well, I am nearly thirty," said Sir Richard. Miss Creed worked this out. "You couldn't possibly be my father!" "I am far too drunk to solve arithmetical problems. Let it suffice that I have not the slightest intention of making love to you.

True intimacy comes from honesty, not the illusion of sweetness.

There aren't enough people left who get mad, plain mad. Not mad for a cause or a purpose, but just generally mad at all the bitchery and fraud. We take fraud for granted. We accept it. We like it. We want to be had. That's where he was different. He knew he was being cheated and he didn't like it one tiny bit, whether it was some old biddy doing him out of his two dollars or a corporation telling him they made better cathartics. He was the last angry man.

If accusations fit your prejudices, truth is easily pushed aside.

When in doubt, do the right thing

There's never a reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust.

Answer me this: is it worse to end a stupid task falsely or to continue a stupid task honestly?

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Only horses were honest, in the end.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.