Quotes About Honesty

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

To expect that men who do not honorably and intelligently conduct their private affairs will honorably and intelligently conduct the affairs of the community is to be a fool.

The tendency to lie is one thing; lying is another.

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

CONFIDANT, CONFIDANTE, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by him to C.

The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them.

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

Honest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but to be different?' 'Robbery the first time, and I served seven years. When they caught me again there were eighty-four counts, with fourteen murders.' Cosca cocked an eyebrow. 'But we're you truly guilty?' 'Yes' He frowned for a moment then waved it away. 'Nobody's perfect. Lets leave the past behind us.

It is healthy to be disabused of our self-deceptions every now and then, even if it hurts.

The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like.

He'd played at being a different man, but it had all been lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.

Brand stared in sick disbelief. He'd been sure among all those lads someone would speak, for they were honest enough. Or Hunnan would tell his part in it, for he was a respected master-at-arms. The king or the queen would draw out the truth, for they were wise and righteous. The gods wouldn't allow such an injustice to pass. Someone would do something. Maybe, like him, they were all waiting for someone else to put things right.

Honest men are so very rare, they are often mistaken for criminals, for rebels, for madmen. What were your crimes, anyway, but to be different?

There's nothing unpatriotic about the truth," muttered Leo, wondering whether there might be.

Un hombre debe ser capaz de conocer sus propias limitaciones.

A good liar tells as much truth as he can. That way you never know what you're getting.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you're better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that's the last thing you want.

The truth is overrated." Vick let the purse drop into his hand. "An actor should know that.

Fencing is one thing,' he said. 'Actual violence quite another. Few of us are made for it. It is healthy to be disabused of our self-deceptions every now and then, even if it hurts.

Olyan rendben tartsd a hazugságaidat, mint a télire eltett vet?magot.