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Quotes About Honesty

Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.
~ Katharine Brush
One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?
~ Mike Krzyzewski
I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.
~ Nicole Kidman
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.
~ Peter McWilliams
All of our heartfelt lies Are not enough this time
~ Ron Pope
I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative.
~ Stephen Roche
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
~ Theodore Parker
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.
~ Tove Jansson
I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time
~ Ellen Hopkins
In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite
~ Flannery O'Connor
Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa."
~ Jacques Pepin
Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.
~ James Carville
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.
~ Bob Dylan
If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time.
~ David Ogilvy
I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.
~ Terrell Owens
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
~ Emile M. Cioran
I think we all feel the same things most of the time, we just don't know how to put it into words. When I'm on stage, I say it. The truth makes people laugh.
~ George Lopez
I can't face losin' ya, Riley. Yer all I got left in this world." That brutal honesty again. He'd peeled away more armor, and this time he'd exposed his heart.
~ Jana Oliver