Quotes About Honesty

He would not deceive himself so much. He would not – and this was the test – pretend to care about women when the only sex that attracted him was his own. He loved men and always had loved them. He longed to embrace them and mingle his being with theirs. Now that the man who returned his love had been lost, he admitted this.

He has the merit—if it is one—of saying exactly what he means.

Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal.

He questioned Maurice, who, when he grasped the point, was understood to reply that deeds are more important than words.

I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere.

Straight?" He trembled as he asked this supreme question. "Scudder? A little too smart to be straight.

I am swathed in cant', she thought, 'and it is good for me to be stripped of it.

When real things are so wonderful, what is the point of pretending?

Because we think it improves our characters. But he is kind to people because he loves them; and they find him out, and are offended, or frightened.

I don't believe in suiting my conversation to my company

Como é que tu achas que é o mundo das pessoas crescidas? -Não sei dizer. Sou um rapa- disse, com muita sinceridade. São muito traiçoeiras, sir? ---- Mr. Darcie (professor) e Maurice P.13, Maurice, E.M. Forster, Livros Cotovia, tradução de Jorge Ayres Roza de Oliveira P.13, Maurice

It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

He had stopped loving Maurice and should have to say so plainly.

Women—I heard you say the other day—are never at ease till they tell their faults out loud.

We have morals and behaviour also, and I don't think this continual secrecy improves them.

I like accuracy for its own sake, strive after it myself, and am sometimes guilty of forcing it upon others. -Bunny

As I say, I'm not sorry I talked. I can look any man in the eye again and tell him to go to..." He glanced at Miss Minerva. "Madam, I will not name the precise locality.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

No one may abuse the truth with impunity.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.

Truth is not mathematical concept that needs to be proved with equations. Its singleness demands an intact moral compass, with certainties about what is good and bad.

ben de söz vermi?tim. biz bal?m, biz o sözleri verirken sizin ne kadar hakikatle dinedi?inizi bilmiyoruz.

Thus the Mormon dilemma: Outside the Church is no salvation,' yet inside the Church there is no hope either, for no one who is honest with himself could ever pretend to meet its impossible standards of personal righteousness.