Quotes About Honesty

No podía encontrar satisfacción duradera en la compañía de una persona que a la ignorancia unía la insinceridad.

I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.

Çünkü s?rf içimizi rahatlatmak için verdiÄŸimiz sözleri bile tutamayacak hale gelirsek, ahlak kurallar?na ne olur?

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken;

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aun, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

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? Emma

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell.

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aún, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

Usted es demasiado generosa para jugar con mis sentimientos. Si los suyos siguen siendo los mismos del pasado abril, dígamelo en seguida. Mi afecto y mis deseos no han cambiado, pero una palabra suya me silenciará para siempre

Ninguna de las dos tiene nada que contar; tú porque no comunicas nada, y yo porque nada escondo.

Cuando un joven, sea quien sea, viene y enamora a una linda chica y le promete matrimonio, no tiene derecho a desdecirse de su palabra sólo por haberse empobrecido y que una muchacha rica esté dispuesta a aceptarlo. ¿Por qué, en ese caso, no vende sus caballos, alquila su casa, despide a sus criados, y no da un real vuelco a su vida?

young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; ...it is a paltry device, a very mean art.

But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

You are too generous to trifle with me. 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.

Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material.

We have neither of us any thing to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing.

How much I shall have to tell! Elizabeth added privately, And how much I shall have to conceal!

You speak too plain. She must understand you.' 'I hope she does. I would have her understand me. I am not in the least ashamed of my meaning.

Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets 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.

Es que nunca vas a permitir que te alaben? Entonces no puedes ser mi amigo, pues quienes aceptan mi amor y mi estima deben someterse a mis más abiertos elogios.

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: and though this was not particularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is to keep secrets. They always come out in the end, and it is the unspoken that causes the most problems.