Quotes About Honesty

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.

I am the last person on Earth who can be diplomatic. I say what I actually feel.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I don't have a persona or anything like that that I'm trying to live up to.

Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

I never manufactured my persona.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

To-day, the man who pays taxes to the amount of two hundred francs is virtuous; the talented man is the honest pickpocket: such truths as these are accounted trivial.

Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph

PRESCRIPTION A bit of virtue will never hurt you.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth And what flies up, though it be but a spark, Shall have weight.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

oath. In Matthew, it says to 'swear not at all', and Quakers felt it implied a double-standard to swear to tell the truth in court when they claimed they maintained honesty and integrity at all times.