Quotes About Honesty

Character is you doing what is right when no one is looking and no one will know.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.

Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied, one time or another.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.

You can't pray a lie.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.

lying to them is bad! I am a real person!

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Live the lifestyle instead of paying lip service to the lifesytle. Live with commitment. With emotional content. Live whatever life you choose honestly. Give up this renaissance man, dilettante bullshit of doing a lot of different things (and none of them very well by real standards). Get to the guts of one thing; accept, without casuistry, the responsability of making a choice.

Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.