Quotes About Honesty

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

To write a novel is always to go naked, whatever you're writing about. You always reveal yourself.

Integrity reveals beauty.

This is my journal. I can be candid here. Candidly, I could not be more miserable.

You can only miss so many swings in baseball before you have to admit you might not be a good hitter, but you can mangle grammar and syntax every day without ever realizing how poorly you speak.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

I know I am talking nonsense, but I'd rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!

Never were finer snares for womens' honesties Than are devis'd in these days ; no spider's web's Made of a daintier thread, than are now practis'd To catch love's flesh-fly by the silver wing

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Characer is much easier kept than recovered.

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.