Quotes About Honesty

The devil will tell a thousand truths to sell one lie.'

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other. We know who our enemies are. We know.

Yes, emotions may be authentic, and authenticity is a modern virtue, but one can be authentic without being unnecessarily revealing.

Trust is a foundation of leadership. We trust that a leader is honest, able, and has a vision of where to go. But trust operates on an even deeper level. We trust that a leader is who he appears to be, that the public person and the private one are the same.

There is nothing beneath a leader.

the frontiers of our Empire to know that the British dominion all over the world could not endure for a year, perhaps not for a month, if it was founded upon a material basis. The strength and splendour of our authority is derived not from physical forces, but from moral ascendancy, liberty, justice, English tolerance, and English honesty.

I have seen enough in peace and war of the frontiers of our Empire to know that the British dominion all over the world could not endure for a year, perhaps not for a month, if it was founded upon a material basis. The strength and splendour of our authority is derived not from physical forces, but from moral ascendancy, liberty, justice, English tolerance, and English honesty.

Richard Turner

I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.

ya prove who ya are in the day yer in.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

I dreamt the past was never past redeeming:But whether this was false or honest dreamingI beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead.

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.

The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted: let yourself go and you started embellishing your own sobs, or you started telling about the Wheelers with a sad, sentimental smile and saying Frank was courageous, and then what the hell did you have?

that if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?

Se si vuole fare qualcosa di assolutamente onesto, qualcosa di vero, alla fine si scopre sempre che è una cosa che va fatta da soli.

The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up