Quotes About Honesty

my father used to say: "Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

He just says out loud what other folk keep in the quiet of their hearts.

Better you should know your honest than over-guess your abilities and lose control".

there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart. Most

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere." "My

Tutte le storie sono vere» disse Skarpi. «Ma questa è accaduta davvero, se è questo ciò che intendi.» Bevve lentamente un altro sorso, poi sorrise di nuovo, i suoi occhi vivaci che danzavano. «Più o meno. Devi essere un po' bugiardo per raccontare una storia nel modo giusto. Troppa verità confonde i fatti. Troppa onestà ti fa sembrare falso.

wanted to say something. I wanted to say it didn't bother me, but that would be a lie. I wanted to tell her all that really mattered to me was that she came back, but I was worried that might be too much truth.

Ella me enseñó que no debía hacer nada en privado de lo que no quisiera que se hablara en público

No hay ninguna buena historia que no contenga nada de verdad [...]. Supongo que aquí hay tanta verdad como en cualquier otro sitio. Es una lástima, al mundo le vendría bien un poco menos de verdad y un poco más de...? No terminé la frase, porque no sabía de qué quería más.

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere

There's no good story that doesn't touch the truth,

More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I'm telling the perfect truth. Regardless

I simply gave her my most charming smile. I'd already told her the truth of things: I was no gentleman. I was a thief.

it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart. Any fool will spit out poison, he says, but we hoard these painful treasures. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.

Wilem tapped Simmon's shoulder. "He's telling the truth." Simmon glanced over at him. "Why do you say that?" "He sounds more sincere than that when he lies.

Demasiada sinceridad te hace parecer falso.

No me importa que me llamen mentiroso. Lo soy. Soy un mentiroso extraordinario. Pero no soporto que me llamen mentiroso cuando estoy diciendo la verdad.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

All such advances require only that we live by the principles we claim to espouse but have too long ignored...

How awful, that an honest man should feel compelled to travel such crooked paths!

Sometimes the hardest thing someone has to do is admit that he's wrong. Of course I only know this from what I hear from other people, as it's never happened to me personally." -Dionysus, god of wine, women, and song, bartender

We're not going to cheat," I said. "Unless we can do so without breaking the rules. Besides

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.