Quotes About Honesty

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Sometimes, honesty really wasn't the best policy. Or, at least, it wasn't the kindest policy.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity.

Sometimes it is hard to know what the truth is. And sometimes truth is pain. Easier to hide the truth and make a secret of it, than to face it. -Chapter 22, page 254

Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

He that jokes confesses.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

There is no language without deceit.

This he understood: that association makes people stronger and brings out each person's best gifts, and gives a joy which is rarely to be had by keeping to oneself, the joy of realizing how many honest decent capable people there are for whom it is worth giving one's best (while living just for oneself very often the opposite happens, of seeing people's other side, the side which makes one keep one's hand always on the hilt of one's sword).

Capì questo: che le associazioni rendono l'uomo più forte e mettono in risalto le doti migliori delle singole persone, e danno la gioia che raramente s'ha restando per proprio conto, di vedere quanta gente c'è onesta e brava e capace e per cui vale la pena di vedere cose buone (mentre vivendo per proprio conto capita più spesso il contrario, di vedere l'altra faccia della gente, quella per cui bisogna tener sempre la mano alla guardia della spada)

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La menzogna non è nel discorso, è nelle cose.

Solo essendo così spietatamente se stesso come fu fino alla morte, poteva dare qualcosa a tutti gli uomini.

Le donne oneste erano quelle che sapevano trovare l'acquirente al prezzo più alto, erano quelle che non consentivano all'amore che quando ci trovavano il loro tornaconto.

Una confessione in iscritto è sempre menzognera. Con ogni nostra parola toscana noi mentiamo! Se egli sapesse come raccontiamo con predilezione tutte le cose per le quali abbiamo pronta la frase e come evitiamo quelle che ci obbligherebbero di ricorrere al vocabolario! È proprio così che scegliamo dalla nostra vita gli episodi da notarsi. Si capisce come la nostra vita avrebbe tutt'altro aspetto se fosse detta nel nostro dialetto.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

Paul spoke of his failures and successes with an openness few of us are prepared to copy.

A prominent businessman once replied to a question: "If I had to name the one most important quality of a top manager, I would say, personal integrity.

Surely the spiritual leader must be sincere in promise, faithful in discharge of duty, upright in finances, loyal in service, and honest in speech.