Quotes About Honesty

If you have decided you are going to get rid of someone, nothing beats honesty.

Don't lie, don't steal and always be early.

So I said, "I'll miss you. You are the truest friend I've ever had." I could see that my words were a knife in his gut. Yet, it seemed kinder than the alternative, for him to know I love him, but that I'm leaving anyway.

Like me, she has scruples. Why is it that only people with money have scruples? Do we have no money BECAUSE we have scruples?

wondered, could someone love you if you didn't tell him the whole truth?

You learn about me, and I learn nothing about you. That's not a foundation on which friendships are based.

A liar knows the truth but attempts to hide it. A bullshitter doesn't necessarily know what's true and really doesn't care what's true. That makes it almost impossible to find out what the hell the truth is.

Be this as it may, we know on the best authority that Nathanael was a man of great moral excellence. No sooner had Jesus seen him than He exclaimed, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" The words suggest the idea of one whose heart was pure; in whom was no doublemindedness, impure motive, pride, or unholy passion: a man of gentle, meditative spirit, in whose mind heaven lay reflected like the blue sky in a still lake on a calm summer day.

If I seem cagey, it is because I am not a liar and hate being considered one, due to an accident of craft. But also, if I tell you the idea, and the description disappoints you, the novel can be lost.

bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

I affect not reserves which I do not feel. I will not amuse you with an appearance of deliberation when I have decided. I frankly acknowledge to you my convictions, and I will freely lay before you the reasons on which they are founded. The consciousness of good intentions disdains ambiguity.

I never did think the truth was a crime.

My soul has ever abhorred the thought that a free man dared not speak the truth.

A gude conscience is the best divinity.

A gude paymaster ne'er wants hands to work.

should have been in Parliament, Allday." Allday put down his empty glass. He had never seen him in quite this mood before, "I'm too honest, sir.

Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth.

Diaries are terrible liars. They record dramas out of context, encourage paranoia, rearrange facts, are deliberately biased and self-justifying, blind you with irrelevance, censor alternative opinion, exaggerate petty complaints into tragic emblems and, in particular, wallow in the fact that any fool can write about dejection, but describing happiness takes determination and skill. Most diaries are moans in writing, even when the person writing them is happy.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside,A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.