Quotes About Honesty

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them.

I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere.   ORONTE

Contre la médisance il n'est point de rempart.

I am, I fear, inclined to be unfashionably sincere.

Je veux que l'on soit homme, et qu'en toute rencontre le fond de notre coeur dans nos discours se montre, que ce soit lui qui parle, et que nos sentiments ne se masquent jamais sous de vains compliments.

That there's a difference 'twixt false and true.

La culpa no es de los aduladores, sino del que quiere ser adulado.

PHILINTE: Il est bien des endroits, où la pleine franchise Deviendrait ridicule, et serait peu permise; Et, parfois, n'en déplaise à votre austère honneur, Il est bon de cacher ce qu'on a dans le cÅ"ur. Serait-il à propos, et de la bienséance, De dire à mille gens tout ce que d'eux, on pense? Et quand on a quelqu'un qu'on hait, ou qui déplaît, Lui doit-on déclarer la chose comme elle est? ALCESTE: Ouy..

If all hearts were candid, just, and tractable, most of our virtues would be useless to us, inasmuch as their functions are to bear, without annoyance, the injustice of others in our good cause; and just in the same way as a heart full of virtue

The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish.

We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments

his mother and I aren't too happy about Richard. Frankly, he's getting a bit, er, well … first reading poetry when he ought to be getting his pony ready for the Bath and County next Thursday, then lying to his mother – took his beating in a very, well, cowardly way, then, am I right? howling on your, in your, in the schoolroom,' the Captain finished desperately.

Save your act for other people. The lies and the show – I don't want it. I want you. Fucked up and crazy. I want you.

I wanted to show you the truth of me. And…loving you is a part of that. It's a part of who I am now.

I'm not talking about whether or not you'll send me a card next February." She shook her head. "I can't be with a withholder. I won't live with little denials." The way she said that, it sounded like he'd proposed.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

He manipulated love into something perverse, confusing me about what love is, causing me to sexualize friendships and relationships, teaching me without words that I was worth. Violence would have been more honest

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.