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Quotes About Honesty

When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I don't despise myself at all. I think I'm very honest, very brave, very sacrificing, I gave a lot to a lot of people. And all they gave me back is rotten tricks. That's all I see.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good people from bad.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You have to choose: death or lies.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
but I'll be honest was an indication of guilt, right up there with ly words.
~ Luanne Rice
Thomas felt his breath coming easier than it had in two months, and not for the first time he wondered why people make it so hard to talk to the people they love. They imagine the worst, they set up obstacles to prevent the truth from coming out. But in the end, when they finally muddle through, they find relief.
~ Luanne Rice
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~ Lucille Ball
The way to stay young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.
~ Lucille Ball
The thing about settling down that freaks me out is that you're being honest, You're saying, this is me. This is what I can do. This is it.
~ Lucy Diamond
People who switch their niceness on and off are not to be trusted.
~ Lucy Diamond
I asked Doss if she had no regard for appearancs. She said, 'I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities. Appearances can go hang!
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Quando aprendemos que a linguagem nos foi dada para que possamos esconder nossos pensamentos, nos tornamos menos interessantes.- Anne
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
A confession has to be part of your new life.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man—but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Non dire sciocchezze e, per giunta, in latino.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Niente ci vuole a far la pazza, creda a me! Gliel'insegno io come si fa. Basta che Lei si metta a gridare in faccia a tutti la verità. Nessuno ci crede, e tutti la prendono per pazza!
~ Luigi Pirandello
Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.
~ Lynn Cullen
How many times have I told you never listen to a person's words; watch their actions to see what is in their heart. A person can say many things they do not mean. Charlie to Beth
~ Lynsay Sands
Suzette was different, her responses were honest, her need real not feigned to jolly the exercises along, and that passion in her had called out to his own. Feeling her tremble with excitement had excited him, tasting her passion had made his own hunger stretch and roar, and just watching her find her release had nearly brought on his own. He wanted to possess that, and if it took marriage to do it, then dammit, Gretna Green here he came.
~ Lynsay Sands
In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
The issue of cheating is enormous to any marriage because it involves the most necessary ingredient of any relationship—trust—
~ M. Gary Neuman