Quotes About Honesty

All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

We confess small faults to insinuate that we have no great ones.

How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.

We can't bear to be deceived by our enemies, and betrayed by our friends; yet are often content to be so served by ourselves.

The surest way to be cheated is to fancy ourselves more cunning than others.

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

'Tis as easy to deceive ourselves without our perceiving it, as 'tis difficult to deceive others without their perceiving it.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, and coquetry by true love.

Men are never so easily deceived as when they are endeavoring to deceive others.

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.