Quotes About Honesty

There is very seldom any true secret.

Or had Howl slithered out so hard that he had come out right behind himself and turned out what most people would call honest?

If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever.

My shining dishonesty will be my salvation

His bedroom door did escape him. "What a lie that was!" Howl remarked as he walked into the wall. "My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me." He walked into the wall several times more, in several different places, before he discovered his bedroom door and crashed his way through it. Sophie could hear him falling about, saying that his bed was dodging.

It's a funny thing, Jan went on, she's not a child, she's not stupid, but her relationship with other people tends to be very naïve; she believes that everyone is honest and kind. Punia knows that there are bad people around her, too, she recognizes them from a distance. But she really can't believe that they may hurt

to be honest, and I'm not

But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

There can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

Rita knew better than most that doctors can be reluctant to admit it when they do not have the answer to a question. If no good answer presents itself, some will sooner give a bad answer than no answer at all. She did not tell Mrs. Vaughan this.

Don't be so polite. If there's one thing I can't abide, it's politeness.

I was not transparent, that she could not see straight through me

And will you tell me the truth?" "I will tell you the truth.

Lack of respect could make you angry. Lack of trust could get you killed.

We remain the custodians of the idea that wealth should be obtained through

What's striking here is the shamelessness of Moore, Sanders and Warren.

Your memory rope may not contain a precise, photographic accounting of past events, because those moments become lost within seconds of anything that occurs. But still, your honest (if not accurate) memories will be attached to those knots, and those honest memories—along with reflection, examination, reconsideration—are precisely what the memoirist has to offer.

If you love people, you take them on trust.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

A promise to a liar means nothing!

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Do not be satisfied when others think of you as being devout—but truly be in reality what you appear to be. Woe to the man who is not pious yet wants to be considered as such.

All of us...still believe that the American flag betokens a kind of general righteousness. But I say...that signs are signs and some of them are lies.