Quotes About Honesty

no man is as offended at doubt as is the habitual liar who has for once told the truth.

I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth.

An empty heart eats lies.

Don't turn the truth into a lie using self-fulfilling prophecies. RJ Intindola

Like most fruits which look good from outside are not sweet, similarly, people who talk sweet can be dangerous and untrustworthy. People, who flatter on your face and criticise behind your back, are not fit to be friends. They are like poison in milk. One should always be cautious of them and get rid of them at the earliest.

to test the purity of gold, it is heated at high temperature; it is tapped, hammered and cut. That gives it the glitter. Similarly, an honest person is tested for purity by his acts of donation, good deeds, virtuosity, sacrifice and behaviour. Any person, who possesses all these qualities, glitters like gold.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784)

Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do.

I'm not stupid, romantic, or a busy Russian novelist.

Your legacy. Hard work but honest. You don't have to outsmart anybody or depend on anyone when you own one plot of land. 'Cause it's always there.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

Ask me no questions, and I will tell you no lies.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

cruelly unjust both in their act and their thought, accompanied by a feeling that they are helping the world to receive its deserts; men who are honest can blindly go on robbing others of their

La verdad no está de parte de quien grite más

Only the weak dare not be just.

Consciously or unconsciously, I may have done many things that were un-true, but I have never uttered anything false in my poetry ? that is the sanctuary where the deepest truths of my life find refuge.

What she couldn't stand, she said, was pretence of any kind, especially the pretence of desire, wherein someone feigned the need to possess her wholly when in fact what he wanted was to use her temporarily. She herself, she said, was quite willing to use others too, but she only recognised it once they had admitted this intention in themselves.

Tony has taught me that my habit of wanting to please people by saying that things are better than they are just creates disappointment, mine more than anyone else's. It's a form of control, as so much of generosity is.

She herself, she said, had visited the very depths of disillusionment in the male character by being honest in precisely this way: men who had claimed one minute to be dying of love for her were openly insulting her the next

mutual frankness that she could work out who she herself was and what she actually wanted.

I'm not remotely interested in me as a subject," she said. "I'm interested in me as an object, and my honesty isn't brave, because it's not for me, it's not about me. It's just that I'm all I've got.