Quotes About Honesty

but you haven't kept your word

Never make promises you don't plan to keep.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, Mr. Carpenter had said once. Silence betrays.

If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

ANNE: You said you'd keep me in my room until I confessed. I just thought up a good confession and made it as interesting as I could. MARILLA: But it was still a lie. ANNE: You wouldn't believe the truth.

It must be admitted frankly that Aunt Becky was not particularly beloved by her clan. She was too fond of telling them what she called the plain truth. And, as Uncle Pippin said, while the truth was all right, in its place , there was no sense in pouring out great gobs of it around where it wasn't wanted. To Aunt Becky, however, tact and diplomacy and discretion, never to mention any consideration for any one's feelings, were things unknown.

Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards.

I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it.

I don't like reading about martyrs because they always make me feel petty and ashamed... ashamed to admit I hate to get out of bed on frosty mornings and shrink from a visit to the dentist!

I wonder if, when I go to bed tonight, I'll feel furious with myself for pulling off my mask and letting you see into my shivering soul like this.

Are you making fun of me? asked Emily gravely.

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

Ä°nsanlar gerçek düÅŸüncelerini dile getirseler bu dünya çok daha ilginç bir yer olurdu; gerçi zaten çok ilginç bir yer.

But play the game of life according to the rules.  You might as well, because you can't cheat life in the end.

there was certainly no need of fine-tooth combs in this case.

Hem Bayan Allan elimizde bir kan?t olmad??? sürece insanlar?n bize doÄŸruyu söylediklerinden ÅŸüphe etmememiz gerektiÄŸini söyledi.

Charlie Sloane says he's going to go into politics and be a member of Parliament, but Mrs. Lynde says he'll never succeed at that, because the Sloanes are all honest people, and it's only rascals that get on in politics nowadays.

It's a fearful responsibility to have a child in your house you can't trust.

Robert Baxter isn't often known to tell the truth." "Come, come, Cornelia, I think he generally tells the truth, but he changes his opinion so often it sometimes sounds as if he didn't.