Quotes About Honesty

Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't.

Whatever else could be said of Eunice Park, she was perfectly true.

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.

His manner, his words - everything about him told me to trust him.

There is only one truth. Truth is absolute. You can't escape it, no matter how far you run.

Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down.

You have bettered yourself, he said, making such a low bow that the tassel of his cap swept the carpet. You may recall I invariably affirmed you would. Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down. We both know that nothing is easier to keep down, I said. By my old guild, they were kept down every day.

Someone who holds in confidence only those secrets he has been told not to reveal can never be trusted.

You said you loved truth. Now I see why — it is truth that binds men.

I kept becoming larger in her presence, kept returning to who I would have been without the pretense of who I thought I should be.

By God, quod he, for pleynly, at a word, Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!

He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he remembers it, However rudely spoken or unfit, Or else the tale he tells will be untrue, The things invented and the phrases new.

la honradez y la buena vida siempre andan disociados, cuando se trata de gente pobre.

Just so, lo, thus does it fare with us. For he who seems the wisest, by Jesus, is the greatest fool, when it comes to the proof. And he who seems the most honest is a thief. That shall you come to know, ere that I leave you, when I have made an end of my tale.

Un hombre honrado y un ladrón nunca pueden pensar igual.

Las palabras deben corresponder a la acción».

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

We shall never be able to keep the secret unless everybody knows what it is.

To be fool enough to believe a ramping, stamping, thumping lie: that is what you call sincerity!

A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence.