Quotes About Honesty

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.

Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

No soy hombre de muchas palabras, Emma. Si te amara menos, sería capaz de hablar más de ello. Pero sabes como soy. De mí no escucharás más que verdades. Te he hecho reproches y te he reprendido y lo has soportado como ninguna otra mujer en toda Inglaterra lo hubiera hecho. Soporta todas las verdades que ahora te voy a decir, mi queridísima Emma, tan bien como soportaste aquellas

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

Where pride and stupidity unite there can be no dissimulation worthy notice

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.

He must tell his own story.' 'But he will tell only half of it.' 'A quarter would be enough.

I ask only what I want to be told.

What! are you never to hear yourself praised! Then you must be no friend of mine; for those who will accept of my love and esteem, must submit to my open commendation.

Emma; but you must think him agreeable. Can you lay your hand on your heart, and say you do not? - Indeed I can, Both Hands; and spread to their widest extent.

Me! returned Elinor in some confusion; indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell. Nor I, answered Marianne with energy, our situations then are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing. (27.17)

Her face was so lovely, that when, in the common want of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

I know you do; and it is that which makes the wonder. With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone. And so you like this man's sisters, too, do you? Their manners are not equal to his.

My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.

does not confine herself to that sort of honest flirtation which satisfies most people, but aspires to the more delicious gratification of making a whole family miserable.

Ella sentía que podía confiar mucho más en la sinceridad de aquellos que en alguna ocasión podían decir alguna cosa descuidada o alguna ligereza, que en aquellos cuya presencia de ánimo jamás sufría alteraciones, cuya lengua jamás se deslizaba.

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.

You must give me leave to judge for myself, and pay me the compliment of believing what I say.

Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.

If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.--Mr. Darcy

Intuía que se podía confiar mucho mas en la sinceridad de las personas que a veces parecían o decían cosas imprudentes o precipitadas, que en la de aquellas cuyo estado de ánimo nunca se alteraba, a quienes nunca se les iba la lengua