Quotes About Honesty

you had said those things to him, you understand, you would have heard some truths in return. If you had been frank you would have elicited frankness.

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.

the problem with being honest, he said, is that you're slow to realize that other people can lie.

Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.

He placed his hands on the sides of her face and looked into her eyes."You're not some woman I picked up in a bar, Chelsea. You're not a one-night stand. Don't sneak out on me.

You're not some woman I picked up in a bar, Chelsea. You're not a one-night stand. Don't sneak out on me.

The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own.

During elections, if one says I do not promise anything to the voter, then he won't give his valuable vote. But while promising the voters, things that cannot be fulfilled should not be promised.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

I'm not taking votes based on getting re-elected.

I will be damned if the people in South Florida are going to dilute the legal votes of my constituents, who have a right to an honest, fair, representative republic.

Politics isn't my cup of tea. I can't lie all the time, beg for votes or put down other politicians.

I wasn't going to say things just to get votes.

Right is right and wrong is wrong. And you can't wait until something nasty and horrible happens to then claim it's wrong, while you've catered the support of certain groups for votes or other reasons.

You must come out. Come out... to your parents... I know that it is hard and will hurt them, but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth!

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation.

Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity of almost everybody.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Strength, to me, is about exposing vulnerabilities and foibles and facts and people that are honest.