Quotes About Honesty

Just because you can look a man in the eyes when you lie doesn't mean you've fooled him.

Honesty is overrated. As someone once said, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the heart.' " "It was the Duc de Richelieu," said Lillian, who had read the same book of philosophy during their schoolroom lessons. "And the accurate quote is, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State .' " "He was French, though," Daisy argued. "I'm sure he meant the heart as well.

Just try to be sincere, and you should have no difficulty." "I have no talent for sincerity," West muttered. "It's not a talent," Kathleen said. "It's a willingness to speak from your heart, rather than trying to be amusing or evasive." "Please," West said tersely. "I'm already nauseous.

I never try to make people feel better by shading the truth one way or the other. I merely relate the facts. How you react to them is your responsibility, not mine.

Poppy, this is London society, where the truth can get you into trouble. If you tell one truth, you'll have to tell another truth, and another, to keep covering up.

I've learned that while gossip about others is often true, it's never true when it is about oneself.

Husband and wives are never completely honest with each other - no marriage could survive it.

A true friend will tell you when he thinks you're making a mistake.

Are you annoyed because I didn't tell you earlier? I'm sorry. But it's not the sort of thing one can just blurt out over tea, or in the entrance hall …'Here's your hat, and by the way, I'm a virgin

You're not my best friend," West said, after taking a swallow of brandy. "You're not even my third best friend.

I don't think they'll judge you severely, so long as they believe that you're not judging them. Just try to be sincere, and you should have no difficulty." "I have no talent for sincerity," West muttered.

A man wasn't entitled to lie or take advantage of others merely because he didn't respect them.

I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.

Here's the problem with having occasional sex with a woman for over two months,' Luna said. 'She starts to think you like her, because it's very unlikely that she would repeatedly hook up with someone she doesn't like. Now that you have that information, maybe you'll think before you fuck.

You need to tell me the truth," Griff said. "I'm starting to feel like a puppet in my own life." "I had to get an abortion. The next day," Luna said.

A salad of honesty and deception is the only way I can get away with an untruth.

I thought I should be the one to tell you," Sam said. "Sorry. It's not like you were the most faithful husband

Then again, Owen also hadn't thought Irene was the kind of person to have an affair. Or the kind of person who wouldn't remind you that you'd actually

For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them.

All I know is he's letting me see it, and him, and he is exactly what he preaches. Raw and honest, and intense and I believe in this moment that we are a rainbow of the same colors, none of them bright or beautiful. We are the many shades of gray and black, hoping to find a glimmer of light in each other, not more darkness.

I never lie to any man because I don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid. —John Gotti CHAPTER

Ella - "I want the truth!" Jayden - "Give me the gun Ella." Ella - "Make me trust you and I will.

We are raw and honest, or we are nothing.

without telling him what I don't want to tell him. What I have to tell him.