Quotes About Honesty

If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

I believe a boy can have anything in life that he wants once he starts working for it. The main thing is not to give up. It makes no difference how tough things get, just bow your back, keep working, and put your heart and soul into it. As you go along your way, live a good clean life, don't hurt anyone or anything, and always be honest. It doesn't hurt to pray a little, too. If you do all those things-someday you'll have your pony and gun. You'll get help when you least expect it.

I believe a boy can have anything in life that he wants once he starts working for it. The main thing is not to give up. It makes no difference how tough things get, just bow your back, keep working, and put you heart and soul into it. As you go along your way, live a good clean life, don't hurt anyone or anything, and always be honest. It doesn't hurt to pray a little too.

a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Men sometimes stumble over the truth, but often pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing had happened

Truth is the most valuable thing in the world but often times is hidden by a bodyguard of lies.

I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.

Uno sciocco dignitoso, Demelza, non ottiene niente, mentre il farabutto dai toni melliflui sì.

Ross said quietly: 'Yes, I could sleep with you.' She smiled at him. He said: 'And for the same reasons will not.' 'Thank you, Captain.' He said: 'You've always been my firm friend – from so long ago. Almost before we knew each other well at all.' 'I believe I fancied you from the beginning.' 'I believe it was something more important than that, even then.

And gentlefolk never laugh at simplicity; they only laugh at pretence.

Tedn sense, tedn reasonable, tedn right, tedn proper, tedn true!

lei, che Ross conosceva tanto bene, che non aveva niente di particolare, nessun vestito carino, né cipria né trucchi, che non aveva alcun segreto per lui. [...].

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

The truth deserves a bodyguard of lies.

I was so untutored as to suppose that all I had to do was to think out what was right and express it fearlessly.

Art is to beauty what honour is to honesty, an unnatural allotropic form.

It is not every councillor who, like the Bastard in 'King John,' will say to his sovereign: 'But if you be afeared to hear the worst, Then let the worst unheard fall on your head.

Truth will only make you unpopular.

His ways were a refuge from falsity.