Quotes About Honesty

Ourika, beware; sometimes reserve leads to duplicity.

Without honesty we can build nothing at all. Trust rests upon honesty's foundation, as does affection and even love.

Where there's a secret,' she says, 'there's shame – and shame is something we can do without.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.

The original function of a deacon, then, was not to call a preacher nor to dictate his message, but simply to serve as a member of a scrupulously honest ration board.

I am only true when I'm alone.

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you.

She transformed herself into organic simplicity. And she'd figured out how to find in simple and honest things the grace of sin.

I am alone in the world and I don't believe in anyone, everyone lies, sometimes even when making love, I don't think one being speaks to another, the truth only comes to me when I'm alone.

Hemos disfrazado con el pequeño miedo el gran miedo mayor y por eso nunca hablamos de lo que realmente importa. Hablar de lo que realmente importa es considerado una indiscreción.

One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.

porque la verdad que se nos niega duele hasta el último día.

Intentá ser feliz sin mentiras ni delirios", escribió el abuelo en la carta dirigida a mí, la que podía leer solo. Que hubiera elegido el verbo intentar me resultó clave:

La verdad que se nos niega duele hasta el último día

Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her. You

And I am not doing any thing that I would not do in front of you.

I will omit but I will not distort.

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

Lies corrode like rust.