Quotes About Honesty

He'll be back soon," she said, her face grave. It suddenly occurred to me that what people call "honesty" might well refer to just such an expression. I wondered if what the word originally meant was not something lovable like that expression, rather than the stern virtue smelling of textbooks of morality.

?nsanlar yalan söylerken ciddi bir yüz tak?n?rlar. Bugünkü yöneticilerimizin ciddiyeti gibi!

Forced explanations often end in a distortion of lies.

To deceive someone who trusts you is to enter a hell that can take you to the brink of madness.

Even supposing I could deceive most human beings into respecting me, one of them would know the truth, and sooner or later other human beings would learn from him.

Desde pequeño, ni siquiera tenía la menor idea de los sufrimientos de mi propia familia o de lo que pensaba. Sólo estaba bien al corriente de mis propios miedos y malestares. En algún momento, me convertí en un niño que nunca podía decir la verdad.

He would never say something in the shadows that he cannot say directly to a person. If there is something he wants to say, he will always tell the person to their face. He was like that at the university, and he is like that now. That is why he is always losing out.

Las personas se engañan unas a otras del modo más natural y, sorprendentemente, sin resultar lastimadas.

There is no insufferable, painful hell like that of deceiving people all the time.

The more naked a person's words are, the more comical, broken, and made-up they sound.

Yalans?z bir hayat. Bu cümle zaten bir yaland?.

Who are jails made for? Only poor people are put in jails! They are probably just the weak and honest people who don't know how to trick others. Just because they aren't craft or evil enough to get by through tricking other people, they get driven into a corner and end up doing something stupid, like stealing two or three yen. And for that they have to go to jail for five or ten years!

But rather than the patronizing "But being decadent is the only way to survive!" of some who criticize me, I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

You may wish to give the name 'honesty' to what others would call dimwittedness, but leave it to such 'honest men' as yourselves to deceive the world with your fabulous dreams and superstitions.

Credibility requires sincerity.

Lies are very hard to defend, especially when reality is so obvious

Real life can never have a written lie all over it.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.