Quotes About Honesty

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

To you sir, this may appear strange; it may appear impertinent; it may appear astonishing; but to me, sir, who am as uncorrupted, us unprotected by power, it is a duty which every honest man out of office should observe towards every rogue in.

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unraveling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humour is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small, and the laughter abundant.

It could not be denied, however, that he set a high value upon justice, for he sold it at its weight in gold.

Whatever may be advanced by philosophers to the contrary, I am of opinion that, as to nations, the old maxim, that "honesty is the best policy," is a sheer and ruinous mistake. It might have answered well enough in the honest times when it was made; but, in these degenerate days, if a nation pretends to rely merely upon the justice of its dealings, it will fare something like the honest man who fell among thieves, and found his honesty a poor protection against bad company. Such

To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints.

You are never wrong doing the right thing.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

The freedom to be honest and the freedom to struggle are key to a real friendship," John said.

If you care about words you learn quite early in life that it is evil to lie.

The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

I'm afraid truth isn't the only thing that matters in law, Suzannah. And out in the real world, it doesn't matter at all.

Lesly: I don't think you're insane. Jackie-O: You don't? Lesly: No. Jackie-O: You don't think I'm an eensie weensie bit insane? Lesly: I don't think you're insane. I think you're just spoiled. Jackie-O: Oh please, if everyone around here is going to start telling the truth, I'm going to bed.