Quotes About Honesty

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?