Quotes About Honesty

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

My mother has always been truthful and honest about my work. I rely on her opinion as it will be unbiased.

My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

Truth is the first casualty of war.

In a war of truth and lie, lie retreats always with shame and pity.

The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them.

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

Finally- no more ruddy show for the folks back home. No pretending it's all beer and skittles and no one ever gets hurt.- Phoenix and Ashes

Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it