Quotes About Honesty

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any man who is afraid to have his doctrine investigated is not only a coward but a hypocrite.

Nothing but truth is immortal.

Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

It certainly is no proof that a man is inspired simply because he is right.

I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.

Fear is the father of lies.

Robert G. Schwartz

He was not a man who told himself comfortable lies.

The idea of suggesting that Strike stop lying to the women in his life occurred only to be dismissed, on the basis that the resolutions to stop smoking, lose weight and exercise were enough personal improvement to be getting on with.

Strike teringat kata Adler, "Kebohongan tidak akan masuk akal, kecuali kebenaran mengandung bahaya yang setara.

Nevertheless, there was a kind of relief in admitting the painful truth: she cared deeply for her partner.

The detective seemed to remember reading that advertisers used Scottish accents to suggest integrity and honesty. The

but I've never been much for faking feelings or maintaining polite fictions to suit public celebrations.

All well bred persons lie—Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think… William Congreve, Love for Love Strike's

Look me in the eye and tell me you've loved anyone, since, like you loved me." "No I haven't," he said, "and thank fuck for that.

Nothing else had seemed to encapsulate what he wanted to tell her, which was "look what we achieved together," "I couldn't have done it without you" and (if he was being totally honest with himself) "you look gorgeous in this, and I'd like you to know I thought so when I saw you in it.

When you're living a lie, nothing's more threatening than people who tell the truth…

Well, it's true, isn't it?" said Douthwaite, displaying unvarnished anger for the first time. "And I'm allowed to tell the truth about my own bloody life, aren't I?

If he were honest with himself, he'd rather still be at the office, speculating about the stabbings with Robin over a Chinese takeaway than heading towards Madeline's. Best, then, not

Do not be too hard on Mr. Cramer," Wolfe replied. "His job is a difficult and often thankless one. He constantly receives assaults from all sides. His superiors in the department demand arrests, the newspapers demand arrests, the public demands arrests. I agree that he is cantankerous, contentious, and often thickheaded. But he also is honest, hardworking, and fearless. The department would do well to have more men like him in their ranks.