Quotes About Honesty

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

Character you either have or don't have. Bigfoot understood that there are two types of people in the world: those who do what they say they're going to do — and everyone else.

But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it. It's all here: the good, the bad and the ugly.

It's like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you—just so she can't point the finger directly at you should she later test positive for clap.

As pessoas do mundo da restauração podem gostar ou não gostar do que vou contar, mas saberão muito bem que não estarei a mentir.

People will continue to pay for quality. They will be less and less inclined, however, to pay for bullshit.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else." "I know. An overwhelming passion for it." "No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

If you never tell a lie, then you never have to play dumb

A fidelity extremely rare among one's friends.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." —JOHN WOODEN

The reality is, if we are being honest with ourselves, we all make emotional decisions about our investments. We are all emotional creatures, and even the best traders in the world are always fighting the inner fear.

There's something in her that's looking for the basic reality of a given situation.

It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary.

A liar has many points to his favour,—but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management of his lies than life will generally allow, he cannot make them tally.

Now, now that she was older and perhaps wiser, love meant a partnership, in which each partner would be honest to the other, in which each would wish and strive for the other's welfare, to that this their joint welfare might be insured. Then, in those early girlish days, it had meant a total abnegation of self. The one was of earth, and therefore possible. The other had been a ray from heaven, - and impossible, except in a dream.

the public is defrauded when it is purposely misled. Poor public! how often is it misled! against what a world of fraud has it to contend!

You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men an women upon the earth

Ah, you think that anything naked must be indecent; even truth.

The truth is so much more real when it comes from things that are near.

She was like a dog or a child, and was unable not to be true. Lizzie was longing for a little mock sympathy

I like everything old-fashioned, said Eleanor; old-fashioned things are so much the honestest.

We English gentlemen hate the name of a lie, but how often do we find public men who believe each other's words?

If I found I didn't like him, I'd leave him at the altar. If I found I didn't like him, I'd leave him even after the altar. I'd leave him any time I found I didn't like him. It's all very well to talk of aroma, but to live with a man you don't like — is the devil!