Quotes About Honesty

Isn't one man's truth another man's lie?

The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Sometimes her capacity for self-deception disturbed her.

When they tell me things I wish to hear, I invariably believe them.

Was the reality quite what he had been telling himself it was?

openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness.

Only as she heard her own words did she realize how melodramatic, how self-pitying they sounded. And how true.

And the need to dissemble after all these years of doing so just seemed too much of an effort now.

nearest their window was horribly visible

Have you missed me, Elizabeth? She considered. Yes, I have, she said. I feel relaxed and at home with you, William. Nothing more? he asked ruefully. I cannot say I feel relaxed with you. I love you, I believe.

You still love him, then, he said when they had moved out of earshot. Elizabeth decided not to lie. Against all reason, yes, she said.

He had paid dearly for his secrecy, for his lack of courage in coming to the point.