Quotes About Honesty

Who steals an egg would steal a cow." She believed it, and applied it to their vineyard manager regularly.

I hate how it's so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person.

Por lo menos estaba siendo honesto. Como ya he dicho, siempre prefiero la verdad –por desagradable que ésta pueda ser— a una mentira. Con la verdad, uno sabe el terreno que pisa.

You're joking, she said. That can't be true. It is, I vowed. Cross your heart? she asked. Cross my heart. Swear on your eyes? I swear on my eyes, I promised. May rats gnaw them out if I'm telling a lie.

Appearances, Darren, she said. Never let them fool you.

Did you make this clear when you were seeking election? Mr. Crepsley asked. Kurda shifted uncomfortably. Well, no, but that's politics. Sometimes you have to hold things back. I didn't lie about it. If anyone had asked me for my views on the Stone, I'd have told them. They just... didn't... ask, he finished lamely. Politics ! Mr. Crepsley huffed. It is a sad day for vampires when our Princes voluntarily ensnare themselves in the despicable webs of politics.

In fiction classes... you find that epiphany has a pretty high rate of occurrence... But when you tell your own story honestly, that epiphany thing is rare... The only changes are emergencies or blessings: when you wake up, notice the surroundings, then fall back, and wander more. And if you're lucky you end up walking again through a life where you're never called on to do much noticing.

That's wonderful. I do like a man that tells you right out he's looking out for himself. Don't we all? I don't trust a man that says he's not. And the man that's telling the truth when he says he's not I distrust most of all, because he's and ass and an ass that's going contrary to the laws of nature.

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

Yo desconfío de un hombre que dice basta cuando le están sirviendo de beber. Pues si ha de tener cuidado de no beber demasiado, esto indica que no es de fiar cuando lo hace

Very Important: During this sensitive postpartum time, you must be very careful not to say anything negative about your wife's appearance. On the other hand, you must not say anything positive about your wife's appearance, because she'll know you're lying. And whatever you do, do NOT give her the impression that you're deliberately avoiding talking about her appearance. This might be a good time to enlist in the navy.

Don't let your mouth write cheques that your talent can't cash.

SECRETS ARE LIES SHARING IS CARING PRIVACY IS THEFT

First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And Also: You are tired. You are true of heart!

Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.

Be Strong, Be brave, Be True. Endure

As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind. No longer

But how many people will? How many people live in a state of aggressive truth-seeking? The answer is few.

My every meeting, movement, my every word, will be available to all my constituents and to the world.

The needed to talk about Annie, the thoughts she was thinking. Why shouldn't they know them? The world deserved nothing less and would not wait.

Los secretos son mentiras. Compartir es querer. La privacidad es un robo.

Forgotten is the first duty of love: to speak the truth (Ephesians 4:15). Real love does not flatter or soothe when correction is needed but points out the error which is blinding and harming the loved one. Christ said, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and repent (Revelation 3:19). Instead, the idea is now current that love excludes rebuke, ignores the truth, and seeks unity at any price. Only disaster can result.

As the old saying goes, if you have integrity, nothing else matters. But if you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.