Quotes About Honesty

Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off, worthy to the last, weary of all the petty things in life, done to death by the heartless conduct of the only human beings that he had ever loved.

Even Émile Zola was reduced to disingenuously commenting on the work's formal qualities rather than acknowledging the subject matter. He paid tribute to Manet's honesty, however, "When our artists give us Venuses, they correct nature, they lie. Édouard Manet asked himself why lie, why not tell the truth; he introduced us to Olympia, this fille of our time, whom you meet on the sidewalks.

When a man was honest in his dealings, you could forgive him the rest.

Señor, ¿por qué no han de tener las mujeres derecho para encontrar guapos a los hombres que lo sean, y por qué ha de mirarse mal que lo manifiesten? (...) Si no lo decimos, lo pensamos, y no hay nada mas peligroso que lo reprimido y oculto, lo que se queda dentro.

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life, he answered; and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.

You should never lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning long gone before that time. A person who has not done one half of his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?

Good words., I replied. But deeds must prove it also.

You shouldn't lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Honest people don't keep their actions hidden…

Pa ni prva junakinja tog imena [Catherine] nije bez odre?ene ?udne ljepote u svojem divljaštvu, niti je nepoštena usred izopa?ene strasti i strastvene izopa?enosti.

Well, say I promise I won't speak: but that does not bind me not to laugh at him!

honest people don't hide their deeds. (Nelly about Heathcliff, ch. X, p. 103)

You shouldn't lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. A person who has not done one-half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: 'T will keep. I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

Lad of Athens, faithful be To thyself, And Mystery - All the rest is Perjury

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

My Country is Truth.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

I like a look of agony, Because I know it 's true;