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Quotes About Honesty

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.
~ Lemuel K. Washburn
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can.
~ lennon john ii
There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.
~ Lenny Bruce
The only honest art form is laughter.
~ Lenny Bruce
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.
~ Lenny Bruce
I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
~ Lenny Kravitz
A new poll shows that Americans now believe that Bill Clinton is more honest than President Bush.... At least when Clinton screwed the nation, he did it one person at a time.
~ leno jay iii
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
~ Leo Burnett
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
~ Leo Buscaglia
The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him.
~ Leo J. Burke
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Teach French and unteach sincerity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Unless it's a lie!" I blurted. "You tell 'em, Bick!" yelled Beck. "I just did!" "I know. I heard you." "Cool.
~ James Patterson
nobody ever said doin' the right thing was easy. Simple, yeah, but not easy. Rusty
~ James Reasoner