Quotes About Honesty

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.

though he doesn't like me, I'd trust him and his honest dislike before others who boast of devotion.

lisonja? Lo cierto era que la cuestión

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Porthos, you are as vain as Narcissus; I plainly tell you so, replied Aramis.

Do not give me more credit than I deserve, and you will never have to revise your first impression of me.

Similarly, parents who want to teach the importance of honesty make it a practice never to lie to their children, even when it would be easier just to claim that there are no cookies left rather than to explain why they can't have another one.

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

Sometimes I think we can learn everything we need to know about the world when we read fairy tales. Be careful, be fearless, be honest, leave a trail of crumbs to lead you home again.

Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species.

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.

I knew that men told you the truth for one of two reasons: when they wished to be rid of what they couldn't bear to carry, or when they wished to include you in what they knew so their stories wouldn't be lost.

you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.

Whoever gives his true self away does do with words

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.

Why can't people say what they mean at the time?

Now Franny understood that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.

This was the way love walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.

From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn't want to lie anymore. One more lie and she'll be truly lost. One more and she'll never find her way back through the woods.

Shelby is brutally honest. That's why Maravelle likes her. Maravelle is brutally honest too. You can't have many friends if you act that way, but you can depend on the ones you have.

Many of them began to wonder why they themselves often feigned opinions rather than speak their minds, no matter how clever they were, for fear they'd be thought of as difficult.

Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out and a lie is always a lie no matter how prettily told.

You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.