Quotes About Honesty

You know, America celebrating for Washington — a man who was so truthful — seems kinder sacrilegious. A lot of lying Americans get together and celebrate. Americans celebrating a truthful man's birthday always reminds me of a snake charmer celebrating St. Patrick's Day.

George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.

I dare to be honest, and I fear no labour.

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. There come great eruptions and revolts, great dark ravages, and above all, a joylessness. A great, bleak joylessness. Everything that is natural brings joy.

A Scorpio will tell you the truth even if you can't handle it.

Everybody likes to hear it straight from the boss, even if you are going to get fired.

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses (Proverbs 27:6).

Thought for the day. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

Love. Honesty leads to trust. Trust leads to commitment. Commitment leads to security. Security leads to intimacy. Intimacy leads to love. Love is an expression of God.

The truth is always the truth

True friends, love you unconditionally, have no ulterior motives, want what is best for you, are honest with you. True friends don't always tell you what you want to hear. True friends tell you what you need to hear. True friends are a blessing.

A shit needs to be reminded that he is a shit now and then.

Provoked lies. Parents should not ask questions that are likely to cause defensive lying. Children resent being interrogated by a parent, especially when they suspect that the answers are already known. They hate questions that are traps, questions that force them to choose between an awkward lie and an embarrassing confession. Quentin,

Why do children lie? Sometimes they lie because they are not allowed to tell the truth. Four-year-old

Find the truth and spread the lie.

I am a man who refuses to be a hypocrite and I like and must be just, fair and honest; women for me are more important than oxygen because they are our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. Women are our companions, our beloved soul mates and the sisters of men

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Vont er þeirra ránglæti, verra þeirra réttlæti.