Quotes About Honesty

I once heard a judge tell a defendant there was a difference between being sorry for his actions and being sorry he got caught

was like trying to find an honest man in Congress.

brogue. "Not this fair-skinned Irishman. We tan the way lawyers tell the truth, never on purpose and never very well.

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

We tan the way lawyers tell the truth, never on purpose and never very well.

He didn't have to maintain his pride or protect his image. I wasn't his parent or his priest, so he had no obligation to confess. I didn't judge him, so he had no reason to be defensive. I didn't expect him to be anyone, so he had no reason to be anyone but himself. He just needed to get those stories out, to purge an evil spirit.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.—Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. Origin Debated

People are forgiving, Mr. Coe, but they want accountability.

Never be afraid to tell the truth, Sam. Not to the people who love you.

you're embarrassed to have it read, then you probably shouldn't be doing whatever you're writing about in the

Rather than speaking the truth for the right reasons we may want to make our point defend our position or put the other person down. The truth be told but it should be done at the right time for the right reasons and with the right attitude.

The way we treat certain people in public should sqaure with the way we talk about them in private There should not be double standard.

The use of tact is always needful but it is especially necessary when speaking a truth that may strike a sensitive nerve in another.

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

The most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

watching and witnessing history and then, despite the dangers and constraints and our human imperfections, recording it as honestly as we can.

Journalism can be lethal

An honest God is the noblest work of man.