Quotes About Honesty

Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.

The city's more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth.

I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.

Le meilleur commencement pour une bonne amitié, c'est un secret.

I was trying to think of something to say that would sound more meaningful, but when you get down to it, words aren't very useful at baring our souls, they're just something else to hide behind.

God takes note of His creatures' true intentions. The Lord favors a man who intends to fast during Ramadan over a man who fasts because he can't find food to eat anyway. Because one of them means it, while the other one doesn't.

I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity?

Birbirimize yalan söylemeyi hiç gerektirmeyecek bir yerdeyiz biz.

In a marriage, trust is more important than love, as we all know.

Y mientras pronunciaba estas palabras, comprendió lo difícil que era decir la verdad y resultar sincero al mismo tiempo.

And if I happen to tell a lie or two from time to time, it is so you do not come to any false conclusions about me.

Znate i sami, strah da bi vas mogli smatrati ?ovjekom kamena srca najiskreniji je osje?aj u nama.

expressing one's reality in words, as truthful as they might be, goads one to insincerity.

To have done no man a wrong… to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude—this is to be a man

In a word trust that man in nothing. Who has not a conscience in everything. — Laurence Sterne

Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears. You may deceive all the people some of the time, said Lincoln, some of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. We cannot deceive ourselves any of the time, and the only way to enjoy our own respect is to deserve it. What would you think of a man who would neglect himself and treat his shadow with the greatest respect?

Every time we do wrong, every time we depart from the truth, every time we commit a dishonest, unworthy act, do a mean, contemptible thing, we lessen the Omnipotent grip upon us, and then we become a prey to all sorts of fears, apprehensions, dreads, and doubts.

Shakespeare says: God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.

Purity is power because it means integrity of thought, integrity of conduct. It means wholeness.

There is no satisfaction like that which comes from the steady, persistent, honest, conscientious pursuit of a noble aim.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.