Quotes About Honesty

Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an honest woman, I don't agree with you. There are some people who bring dull minds to their reading - and them blame the writer for it. I say no more.

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?

?nsan?n yapabilece?i itiraflar?n en ac?kl?s?, kendi sersemli?inin itiraf?ndan ba?kas? de?ildir.

When a sensible woman has a serious question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.

Her heart beat as if it would suffocate her. She had kept her promise bravely. The whole story of her life, from the time of the home-wreck at Combe-Raven to the time when she had destroyed the Secret Trust in her sister's presence, had been all laid before him. Nothing that she had done, nothing even that she had thought, had been concealed from his knowledge.

Mi devoto amor por la verdad se halla, gracias a Dios, muy por encima de mi respeto por las personas.

It was even a saying among the philosophers themselves that since learned men had appeared, honest men were nowhere to be found.

that I think many things with the clearest conviction, . . . which I never have the courage to say; but I will never say anything which I do not think.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free. Some

Truth will not make us rich but it will make us free.

One cannot go about indiscriminately telling the truth. It must be doled out in bits and pieces or no one shall ever believe it.

Practicing law is not about winning. It's about justice. Simple, naked justice. It's about finding the truth. - Judge Sarah L. Hart

When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Una verdad que se dice con mala intención. Supera todas las mentiras que puedas inventar (William Blake)

Is it possible to live reasonably without lying? Do lies form the natural foundation of all human relationships, the thread that stitches our individual selves together?

All well bred persons lie – Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think…

Why will mankind be fools, and be deceived? And why are friends' and lovers' oaths believed; When each, who searches strictly his own mind, May so much fraud and power of baseness find?

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our hearts, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you [Mark Twain] won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.

If a party stands for nothing but reelection it indeed stands for nothing.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest