Quotes About Honesty

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

Never… be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel.

Never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love for her, which were, to me, the best of good looks.

The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them.

The plain rule is, to do nothing in the dark, to be party to nothing under-handed or mysterious, and never to put his foot down where he cannot see ground.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime.

The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife. It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.

You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don't mean any fashion of speech. Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, either.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

Herbert Pocket had a frank and easy way about him that was very taking. I had never seen anyone then, and I have never seen anyone since, who more strongly expressed to me, in every look and tone, a natural incapacity to do anything secret and mean. There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.

He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood, and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

I shall always tell you everything.

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.