Quotes About Honesty

In vino veritas [In wine is truth].

Don't hang noodles on my ears.

There is only one republic to which I belong, of which we are citizens, we, honest people, who do not aspire, but who pay for the irreverent national domesticity. The Republic is us, it is the real France, the exploitable and exploited material; the priest of all these frenzied republics, of all those parties that have the property of others for dreams and laziness for idols.

magna est veritas, et praevalebit.1

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

The only antidote to being duped is a thorough knowledge of and passion for Truth.

I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing. The locksmith reties the stone inside the bag and slips it back into his rucksack.

I," she says, "am Aethon, a simple shepherd from Arkadia, and—

Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing.

Don't tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don't lie to me.

How much easier it would have been if he and Sandy could have fought: a skirmish in the night, some harsh words, some measure of the truth actually spoken aloud.

Greeks were a religious people and there is little reason to suppose that the priests at Delphi were regularly guilty of conscious deceit or fakery.

He wanted writers like Titus Livius (in English, Livy) to speak their minds on this subject without fear or favor.

People naturally prefer you to lie to them rather than refuse them your help," he writes.

Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to who can't keep them.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells. - Frederick Chase

From Pünd's experience, people who were so insistent on the truth were very rarely telling it.

a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

It meant nothing to me. You can stick a piece of metal on a coward and a liar but it won't change what he is.