Quotes About Honesty

Like a voice crying in the wilderness, we beg members of the foreign press to earn their wages honestly, and suggest that if they must lie they do so about their own countries, but not about El Salvador ." (Notice displayed on the wall of the Ministry of Defence press office, El Salvador, 1983.)

Nothing improper was occurring, on the surface, but she hadn't said a word about her new friend to Max; and by consistently failing to mention and event of significance in her day she was practising a form of duplicity.

If you speak the truth, the monster whispered in his ear, you will be able to face whatever comes.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

You must speak the truth and you must speak it now , Conor O'Malley. Say it. You must. Conor shook his head again, his mouth clamped shut tight, but he could feel a burning in his chest, like a fire someone had lit there, a miniature sun, blazing away and burning him from the inside. "It'll kill me if I do," he gasped. It will kill you if you do not, the monster said. You must say it.

Except I didn't say eff

Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I think I can forgive a kind lie.

What's the point of lying about anything? We could keep being too afraid to say we don't know stuff and then the future will come and eat us anyway and we'll regret not doing all that stuff we wished we did.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

But how do you fight it?" Conor asked, his voice rough. "How do you fight all the different stuff inside?" By speaking the truth, the monster said. As you spoke it just now.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

You know that is not true, the monster said. You know that your truth, the one that you hide, Conor O'Malley, is the thing you are most afraid of.

Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." "It is a true story," the monster said. "Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

It is now or never," said the yew tree. "You must speak the truth.

That's the secret of this planet, Todd. Communication, real and open, so we can finally understand each other for once.

And that, the monster said, is not the truth at all.

Doing what's right should be easy.

Noise ain't truth,

So what do I do?" he finally asked. You do what you did just know, the monster said. You speak the truth. "That's it?" You think it's easy? The monster raised two enormous eyebrows. You were willing to die rather than speak it.

You'll stay?" Conor whispered to the monster, barely able to speak. "You'll stay until…" I will stay, the monster said, its hands still on Conor's shoulders. Now all you have to do is speak the truth.

Si dices la verdad –le susurró el monstruo al oído-, podrás enfrentarte a todo lo que venga.