Quotes About Honesty

There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.

You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing.

Dale una máscara a un hombre y te dirá la verdad

Es perfectamente monstruoso -dijo por fin- la costumbre que tiene la gente hoy día de hablar a espaldas de uno y decir de él cosas que son completa y absolutamente ciertas.

Yes Harry I believe that is true. I cannot help telling you things. You have a curious influence over me. If I ever did a crime I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me.

When I see a spade I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade!

I am always saying what I shouldn't say; in fact, I usually say what I really think--a great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it.

truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

I have said to you that to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Please, tell me the truth. The truth, who knows the truth? You've heart knows the truth.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. 

I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.

El único error imperdonable en el que incurren todas las personas verdaderamente buenas y que nunca pueden evitar es conversar de forma sincera

What a fuss people make about fidelity!

Complex people waste half their strength in trying to conceal what they do. Is it any wonder they should always come to grief?

La verdad es una cosa muy dolorosa de oír y de manifestar

One should always play fairly... when one has the winning cards.

If you're going to tell people the truth, make them laugh.

Truth, indeed, is a thing that is most painful to listen to and most painful to utter.

Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.