Quotes About Honesty

Your actions ought to be louder than your words. Moreover, your actions do tell people more about you rather than your words. Besides, it is the collection of your actions that will eventually beget your reputation and never your words. -Emeasoba George

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

In flawed families, a scion appears who dedicates himself to the truth and who ruins himself in its pursuit.

Doar copiii ?i nebunii ?tiu s? nu mint?.

Sa petreci o seara intreaga langa un om care traieste in minciuna,care e un gunoi dar nu stie (sau nu crede) ca este,o asemenea seara iti lasa un dezgust care a doua zi te bantuie si-ti strica ziua.

L'unique confession sincère est celle que nous faisons indirectement—en parlant des autres. The only sincere confession is the one we make indirectly—when speaking of others.

We invest ourselves with an abusive superiority when we tell someone what we think of him and of what he does. Frankness is not compatible with a delicate sentiment, nor even with an ethical exigency.

A serious, honest mind understands—and can understand—nothing of history. History in return is marvelously suited to delight an erudite cynic.

Quando non si hanno più illusioni su di sè, non se ne conservano sugli altri.

When we have committed the folly of confiding a secret to someone, the only way of being sure he will keep it to himself is to kill him on the spot.

We forgive only madmen and children for being frank with us: others, if they have the audacity to imitate them, will regret it sooner or later.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

Pero creo que si todas las mujeres hablasen lo que piensan, como hice yo por culpa del champagne, más de cuatro y más de ocho se verían peor que esta individua".

Solterón debió ser Diógenes, si no yerro, porque no se concibe que en su tonel hubiera espacio para mujer, y si con su famosa linterna buscaba un hombre honrado, con el Faro de Alejandría habría tenido que andar a cuestas en busca de una mujer de seso...

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.

People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.

A great deal of the reticence of diplomacy had, I think history shows, much better be spoken out.

The least veracious man will tell truly the color of his coat, the hour of his dinner, the materials of his shoes.

The soul "itself by itself," could tell all it wanted if it would be true to its sublimer isolation.

The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds to one another; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality, and every one always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill-feeling. It is the same with nations.

You can kill me but you cannot disguise the truth.