Quotes About Honesty

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

Of Bryan, it might be said that he was candid about his wife and uncomplaining. He treated her offhandedly, as he might treat bad weather.

I'm bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false. They're deceiving themselves.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

We all have faults, mine is being wicked.

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.

Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?

The Truth can set us free.

Surely, in history, "truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost.

It doesn't do anyone any good to live one life and hide another.

Be open, be straight for a lifetime relationship.

It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that Ethics is but another word for righteousness, that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless.

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence? For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations." -Elizabeth Bennet

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out. -Elizabeth

Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest with themselves.

Si sus sentimientos son aún los mismos que en el pasado abril, dígamelo de una vez. Mi cariño y mis deseos no han cambiado, pero con una sola palabra suya no volveré a insistir más.