Quotes About Honesty

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Beware of people who say they're too rich to have to work for money, Adam thought.

Each day it was getting more and more difficult for an honest man to make a living.

But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Trying to be completely sincere with yourself is a good exercise.

Zwei Juden treffen sich im Eisenbahnwagen einer galizischen Station. 'Wohin fahrst du?, fragt der eine. 'Nach Krakau,, ist die Antwort. 'Sieh' her, was du für Lügner bist, , braust der andere auf. 'Wenn du sagst, du fahrst nach Krakau, willst du doch, dass ich glauben soll, du fahrst nach Lemberg. Nun weiss ich aber, dass du wirklich fahrst nach Krakau. Also warum lügst du?

bisogna svelarsi come il solo malvagio fra tutte le nobili persone con le quali si spartisce la vita

I never thought, she went on, that it would be so easy for me to lie. But what must be done can be done.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

To utter a word and meaning nothing by it is unworthy of a philosopher. Berkeley

I am a liar!

A Navajo message could never be faked and could always be trusted.

Lidé zapojení do debaty o Å¡ifrování jsou vesmÄ›s inteligentní, ?estní a jsou pro depozici klí??, ale nikdy nemají více než dvÄ› tyto vlastnosti najednou.

And he needed to be able to look at himself in the mirror without having to turn away - he couldn't bear to be less than he hoped he was. It was a virtue and a fault that he would carry with him all his life.

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

Faith allows an evasion of those difficulties which the atheist confronts honestly. And to crown all, the believer derives a sense of great superiority from this very cowardice itself.

Peut-être vas-tu me trouver ridicule, mais je me mépriserais de n'oser l'être jamais.

They don't like being seen through: as for me I'm straight I don't join their act I tear masks off.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.)

Basta!' Seguí. Quería que se fuera; verdaderamente lo quería, era sincera. Sincera porque no creí que lo hiciera. Era como un espantoso psicodrama en el que uno juega a la verdad.

the astonishing thing the thing I like is that I should have admitted it. No compromise no act: that proper little woman was me all right. I'm clean I'm straight I don't join in any act: that makes them mad they hate being seen through they want you to believe the stuff they hand out or at least pretend to.

I was clean straight uncompromising. No cheating: I've had that in my bones since I was a child.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are evil simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.