Quotes About Honesty

Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have been.

No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked.

Pip, escutes o que vai dizer-te um amigo verdadeiro, pois é aquilo que um amigo verdadeiro diz: se não conseguires ser incomum agindo de modo correto, não conseguirás ser incomum agindo com desonestidade. Por isso, não mintas mais, Pip, e vive bem, e morre feliz.

Nunca somos mais bem enganados, neste mundo, do que por nós mesmos.

A person is never known till a person is proved.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still

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. Gay and merry was the time; and right gay and merry were at least four of the numerous hearts that were gladdened by its coming.

If they can't make me innocent out of the whole truth, they are not likely to do it out of anything less, or anything else.

lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

Bè, naturalmente non è l'uomo adatto.... poiché l'uomo che ha un incarico di fiducia non è mai l'uomo adatto

we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.

I have undergone too much, my friend, to feel pride or squeamishness now. Except - added Nicholas, hastily, after a short silence - except such squeamishness as is common honesty, and so much pride as constitutes self-respect.

captain said and did was honestly according to his nature;

that the plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

All writers misspeak, revealing not what they thought they said, but almost what they were afraid to say.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Because we are lied to all the time, in ways so routine they are beneath conscious notice, even the most direct lies are losing their power to shock us.

There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I'm not a politician and my other habits air good.

If doctors as a whole aren't bound by a duty of confidentiality, patients generally will be less forthcoming, and the general confidence that the public reposes in the medical profession will be reduced.