Quotes About Honesty

As in any war, the truth is the first casualty.

I thought they were honest.' 'They are, but they're bankers, remember.

I believe in God," he said, truthfully but weakly. "It's easy to say that," she said, her words still slow and soft. "And I don't doubt you. But saying is one thing, living is another matter.

Deck has reduced the Canons of Ethics to the Big Three: Fight for your client, don't steal, try not to lie.

Hearing the truth is like grabbing smoke in our family

Hearing the truth is like grabbing smoke in our family," Joel said.

Jak na ka?dej wojnie, prawda jest pierwsz? ofiar?.

La mayoría de los buenos abogados pueden trabajar de ocho a nueve horas diarias y facturar doce. Lo llaman rellenar. No es demasiado honrado de cara al cliente, pero todo el mundo lo hace. Las grandes empresas han crecido gracias a las cuentas de relleno. Son las reglas del juego.

The lawyer calmly said, "Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don't get caught, then you haven't violated any ethics.

Tell the truth, she advised him, and everything will be fine.

worked four thousand hours but billed only three thousand.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, and they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

It's not slander if it's true.

Asked point-blank about Mary's opinion of him, Melville dissembled.

On the scaffold, he shouted out the truth to the assembled crowd.

All I see is someone running away from who he really is. I ain't running away, I called back. And that was the biggest lie I'd ever told.

When we live in an environment filled with honest love, we are much freer to give more of our effort to other aspects of the work [of God]. I doubt there can be happy life without love, and the more honest the love, the more fulfilling the life. I wonder if this isn't the basis of the Savior's statement, I am come that they might have life, that they might have it more abundantly. Isn't He the embodiment of love, and isn't it His greatest desire that all of us be full of love for one another?

People tended to be fascinated or repelled by him, as he was very direct in his approach to people and was impatient of any pretentiousness.

Don't concentrate on becoming a better humor writer, just concentrate on being the best writer that you can become. If you're funny, the work will end up being funny. And if you're not funny, the work will still end up being good. Concentrate on being the most honest writer you can be, and let everything else follow--because it will.

I am from Brookline, Massachusetts, but I was technically born in a hospital in Cambridge. So now you have a critical answer to many of my internet security questions. And as this book is about being honest with you for once, I will also tell you that my mother's maiden name was Callahan. Enjoy my Amazon Prime account and all my money.

There is no justice without truth. P.D. East

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy.