Quotes About Honesty

It is curious—but you cannot make a revolution without honest men.

A good conscience makes a sound sleeper

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

That's all right then. But a lot of people do tell lies.' I accepted this undeniable statement of fact in silence.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

we all have an exaggerated idea of our own personalities and don't recognize the truth if it's sufficiently brutally portrayed...

Truth," she said, "is seldom romantic.

Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.

To deceive deliberately—that is one thing. But to be so sure of your facts, of your ideas and of their essential truth that the details do not matter—that, my friend, is a special characteristic of particularly honest persons.

Being unspoiled and natural. You learn how to do it, and then you have to go on being it all the time. Just think of the hell of it—never to be able to chuck something, and say, 'Oh, for the Lord's sake stop bothering me.

Compréndanme bien: quiero llegar a la verdad. Ésta, por fea que sea, es siempre curiosa y resulta hermosa para el que la busca con afán.

No. It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.

Look here, Iris, you're in a tight place. But apart from anything else, there's such a thing as TRUTH. You can't play safe and take care of your own skin when it's a question of justice.

But, my friend, I am not an Anglo-Saxon. Why should I play the hypocrite?

Biarkan keadilan mengalir bagaikan air, dan kebenaran mengalir bagaikan arus yang kekal.

A man tells to his mistress what he does not always tell to his wife.

have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience.

Yes, yes," he said. "That is true. They must have no inkling that we are using them for our own ends. They are honest men--and that is their value to us. It is curious--but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. The instinct of the populace is infallible." He paused, and then repeated, as though the phrase pleased him: "Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

What you've been saying. It's just words. It doesn't mean anything.

That's the worst of our job," said Race despondently. "So many people keep back the truth for positively futile reasons.

I'm afraid it hasn't occurred to me to have scruples" said Katherine

You've heard the truth and you can take it or leave it as far as I am concerned.