Quotes About Honesty

If suspicion was the deadliest possible insult, then trust was always right, even if it was mistaken.

If you love someone, you owe it to them to listen to what they have to say just as they owe it to you to do the same.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

Don't play games with my heart I will let you go before you start

I can almost see lies coming through your teeth In every word you speak you make it clear to me That you're playing wrong and your game ain't strong I've been in this too long, so just be moving on

If you had my love And I gave you all my trust Would you comfort me And if somehow you knew that your love would be untrue Would you lie to me And call me baby

The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.

It won't do to shrink from hard speeches and judgments when they are necessary. But it is horrible to make them when one is not compelled.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

Be good or don't get caught.

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster. And get things fixed, that much quicker.

Are they as clean as they claim? Or are they only presenting a very neat and falsely polished front?

Authentic Instruction is not always comforting or comfortable.

do not believe in my truth and I do not believe in your truth. I believe in the truth.

Forget the money, show me the morals.

Mostly authentic is impossible. You are authentic or you are not.

Refer and review like your reputation depends on it and is attached to it.

Truth is not flexible. If they have to stretch, bend or hide the truth in order to get that connection or sale; they might not the best person to connect with or buy from.