Quotes About Honesty

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values; honesty, respect, responsibility . . . Parents must teach their children from the earliest age the difference between right and wrong. But we must all do our part.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to being in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat, don't sell drugs. The government hates competition.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

A very honest woman but something given to lie

I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on.