Quotes About Honesty

Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

Just to be honest, like I always am, I tip on my service. I think it's a difference between good service and bad service, and just having a bad day.

There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but I can see them coming a mile off. I just go with the adage that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

We're incredibly honest. I don't tiptoe around my choice of words with Theo. This can start some fights, but in a very healthy way.

Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people.

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.

I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.

We are tired of having our integrity impugned. We are tired of having our sincerity questioned. We are tired of having our intelligence insulted.

I don't feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. You just say what you have to say, and if they don't like it, it's OK.

There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief.

I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.

'Tis always best to tell the truth. At every crisis, I recommend this as a chief contribution to security in life.

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.

People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

I didn't beg for the title shot. I was the first guy to say I missed weight; I don't deserve it. So I wasn't sitting waiting for that phone call... whatever name they were going to say, I was going to say yes, let's do this.

The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.