Quotes About Honesty

I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me.

it's the good and open hearted people, those with the most to give, who are the most vulnerable. Because they think everyone is honest as they are.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, For where I am closed, I am false. Rainer Maria Rilke

I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)

The truth was no way to make a good first impression.

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

Is a man truly what he see himself to be?' 'Only if what he sees is true.

Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive things. You can have affection and hope in children's books, but that is out of fashion in adult fiction.

His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: Do you lie? But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?

It bothered him a little to lie about small things. But he always had; he had grown up lying, and he still found it strange that the people in this place where he now lived thought lying was wrong. To Matty, it was sometimes a way of making things easier, more comfortable, more convenient.

What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?

I said it because it's true. It's the way

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

Pym! The Countess spotted a new victim, and her voice went a little dangerous. I seconded you to look after Miles. Would you care to explain this scene? There was a thoughtful pause. In a voice of simple honesty, Pym replied, No, Milady.

integrity is a disease, and you can only catch it from someone who has it.

You may have slandered an honest man. Or you may have struck a blow for justice. I don't know. The point is... neither do you.

Truth is always War's first victim, the old saying went.

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

My word was too easy to give, too hard to keep.

I can tell you truths. I cannot give you understanding. For how can one give what one does not possess? I have always told the truth.

There is nothing, nothing, nothing more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity.