Quotes About Honesty

CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest a lot of poor fools as ever burned their betters.

Nothing that's worth saying is proper.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.

Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, I'm goin' upstairs to fuck your grandmother. He was an honest man, and he wasn't going to bullshit a four-year-old.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead

You know what these "God Bless America" people oughta do? They oughta check with that Jesus fellow they're so crazy about. They're always talking about "What would Jesus do?" They don't wanna know so they can do it – they just wanna know so they can tell other people to do it!

Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you're honest with them. Then you're an asshole

It's all bullshit, folks.

His very regard for truth melts at last into a perversion of truth.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Everything comes to light, Nancy, sooner or later. When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out.

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.

So I am content to tell my simple story, without trying to make things seem better than they were; dreading nothing, indeed, but falsity, which, in spite of one's best efforts, there is reason to dread.

he was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess.

I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.