Quotes About Honesty

I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful, Their pledges that are loose.

Behold, I am silent: for what need is there that, falsely speaking, I add shamelessness to misfortune?

O God, you have given to mortals a sure method Of telling the gold that is pure from the counterfeit; Why is there no mark engraved upon men's bodies, By which we could know the true ones from the false ones?

OR. For night is the time for thieves, the light for truth.

nor am I the derider of my associates, O father, but the same man to my friends when they are not present, and when I am with them.

Rhesus. Thy way is mine, friend. Straight I run my race In word and deed, and bear no double tongue.

Don't claim you're sincere, just be it.

Don't claim you are sincere, just be it!

yá'ádaat'éhígíí bee hajiidziihgo 'ál'??. A person should only speak words that are good. Saad

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride. I'm thirty, I said. I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor. She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.

We shook hands and I started away. Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something and turned around. 'They're a rotten crowd,' I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.' I've always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.

You said a bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

I saw that for a long time I had not liked people and things, but only followed the rickety old pretense of liking. I saw that even my love for those closest to me was become only an attempt to love, that my casual relations — with an editor, a tobacco seller, the child of a friend, were only what I remembered I should do, from other days.