Quotes About Honesty

I'm a very open person, and I am not ashamed of it being out there. It's part of life.

I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.

I give the worst possible relationship advice to people. I am not ashamed.

I'm not ashamed to speak my mind. What you see is what you get. You're not going to get a two-faced person who is going to say one thing and mean another.

My children feel proud of me. Since their father is honest, they have nothing to be ashamed about.

Struck by the deep injustice, which is the end of these contests, in which everything is against the honest man, everything to the advantage of the rogue, he often summed up in favor of equity against law in such cases as bore on questions of what may be termed divination.

Aki azzal dicsekszik, hogy sohasem változtatja meg a véleményét, az úgy tesz, mintha arra vállalkozna, hogy mindig nyílegyenes vonalban fog haladni. Együgy? az ilyen, hisz a csalhatatlanságban. Márpedig nincsenek elvek, csak események vannak; nincsenek törvények, csak körülmények vannak.

an honest man is the man who keeps his own counsel, and will not divide the plunder.

La flatterie n'émane jamais des grandes âmes, elle est l'apanage des petits esprits qui réussissent à se rapetisser encore pour mieux entrer dans la sphère vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils gravitent. La flatterie sous-entend un intérêt.

One point, however, I may insist on; all trickery, all deception, is certain to be discovered and to result in doing harm; whereas every situation presents less danger if a man plants himself firmly on his own truthfulness.

Of course I know," said Madame Massin, "that the Abbe Chaperon is an honest man; but he is capable of anything for the sake of his poor. He must have mined and undermined uncle, and the old man has just tumbled into piety. We did nothing, and here he is perverted! A man who never believed in anything, and had principles of his own! Well! we're done for. My husband is absolutely beside himself.

You can't say what you think, if it is true, as an illustrious author says it is, that a man must think his words before he speaks his thoughts,

Increase the number of honest women and diminish the number of celibates, as much as you choose, you will always find that the result will be a larger number of gallant adventurers than of honest women.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

A good and faithful judge prefers what is right to what is expedient.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, by any means money.

We are free to yield to truth.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.