Quotes About Honesty

And yet, she suddenly wondered, should you actually lie about how much Proust you've read?

honesty required one to remind oneself that when there were bills to be paid, an offer of money was harder to reject than when there were no such bills. Other people's money, we tell ourselves, is always less deserved than our own.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.

I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.

Men who swear undying love sometimes have the worst intentions in the world.

So like Athos. thought Aramis; That which is actually good never alters.

you cannot reproach me with the slightest coquetry. I have always said to you, 'I love you as a brother; but do not ask from me more than sisterly affection, for my heart is another's.' Is not this true, Fernand?

Love ya" is the coward's way of saying "I love you.

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

Love makes us infamous when love is coldly true

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

Messages are more often "heard" when the communicator is honest, sincere, and succinct. In other words, say what you mean, and mean what you say.

The yamas and niyamas are emphatic descriptions of what we are when we are connected to our source. Rather than a list of dos and don'ts, they tell us that our fundamental nature is compassionate, generous, honest, and peaceful.2

There's one more part," she said, finding the courage, knowing she needed to tell him the rest of it. "Of the all I want to have." "Which is?" She lifted her head then, propped her chin on his chest, and looked into his beautiful blue eyes. "You.

It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through.

I never smile unless I mean it.

Indigos disrespect and dislike anyone who's disingenuous. Indigos can feel phoniness in other people, and they won't be phony themselves. Indigos would rather be punished than say something contrary to their feelings. You

The person you are when no one's looking, or when no one else knows who you are...that's the person you really are!

Trust comes through honesty.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.