Quotes About Honesty

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

Once caught, the jig is up; whining is conduct unbecoming a crone.

Collective promises are never kept, since no one feels responsible for fulfilling them

What does a row matter? Anything's better than deceiving each other. If a relationship can't stand up to the truth, then what sort of relationship is it? Anyway—' agitatedly, Meta twisted a length of scarf round her hand—'it doesn't matter any more.

Children can then quickly discover that there is such a thing called truth; that they are not living in a chaotic world that is hypocritical, filled with only lies and pretense. Parents who admit to their children that they have been unjustly angry and ask for forgiveness are naming something: they are admitting that they are not perfect. Words and life can come together: the word can indeed become flesh.

La actitud principal y necesaria en el discernimiento comunitario es la apertura, la búsqueda de la verdad y la confianza de que esta verdad será alcanzada

Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life - written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?

Don't let politeness interfere with truth

Just such a letter as you would write to your parents if they were living. 'These

Do you think a woman of that age is attractive if she deals in subterfuges and evasions? Character," she added solemnly, "is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.

I'm getting old... Soon I'll be thirty, and then forty, and then fifty; and do you think any one will love me then if I deal in subterfuges and evasions? Character, my dear girls, is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.

There's never any use bothering to tell people the truth when you don't like them. The reason Conny and Pris and I get on so well together, is because we always tell each other the exact truth about our faults. Then we have a chance to correct them—that's what makes us so nice," she added modestly.

You live in a glass house, Mr. Smith.

The lies one tells always pale in comparison to the truths one withholds.

Men's truths rather too neatly fit their convenience, have you ever noticed that?

As your lover describes you, so you are.

Lydia is dubious at first, but if you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?

If you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?

Because everything else is just chingaderas.

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves.