Quotes About Honesty

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas...

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

I am a lie that always speaks the truth.

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Tout flatteur vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute.

Some just wanted to be on the side of the good cookies.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

It was right for his speech to be a failure, since what he had been defending was a lie.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.