Quotes About Honesty

Lower himself! says the lady, with a toss of her head. No man lowers himself by pursuing an honest calling. No man!

You are no longer in the halls of the White House or wherever you served, whomever you were assigned to. This is not some public relations job where you bullshit a stupid press corps and when the questioning gets too tough, you say time is up.

if a man is an honest idiot. i can love him. but i cannot love a dishonest genius

Tú hablas sin palabras. Todos estamos siempre hablando sin palabras. —¿Y para qué valen las palabras, entonces? —No valen para mucho, casi nunca. La mayor parte de las veces, únicamente para ocultar aquello que realmente quieres decir, o algo que quieres saber.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

Men should be what they seem.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true,   85 And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

In thy foul throat thou liest.

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.