Quotes About Honesty

and do not for the love of the Lord say you're laying down if you mean lying down.

No one. I'm a pawn in this game. You're always first to say how unimportant I am. But at least I will be the pawn who tells the truth.

TELL ALL THE TRUTH but tell it slant, says my friend Emily Dickinson.

Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow.

Truth is objective. A man should be respected for telling it, not threatened.

So if it's not this exact prophet of self-indulgence we're looking to for reassurance, it will be some other liar who's good at distracting us from the truth.

As if it's only by hurting yourself that you can be true.

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you. If that was from him to me, it was more man-to-man talk than I'd ever had in life so far.

When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.

Faith and it's doubting me that she is! But 'tis the truth I be telling ye, Emma. On the heads of the Blessed Saints I do swear it's the truth I am speaking, mavourneen.

George Burns line? 'Sincerity—if you can fake that, you've got it made.

but the truth was, his apology meant nothing to her. In her mind, behavior was the truth, not words.

But it is not good to forget, not to face squarely, what happened

An "orthonymous" (literally, "rightly named") writing is one that really is written by the person who claims to be writing it.

the truth that people should prefer to suffer injustice than commit it, that they should actually be good instead of simply seeming to be.

people either live in the light or walk in the darkness; they either stand for the truth or propagate error.

if I was truly committed to God, I also had to be fully committed to the truth.

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it—frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself. Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

Charity had discovered there were things you didn't want to tell. Shame wasn't the reason. Sometimes it was just better-kinder- to keep up a front

And what do you do when you can't use anger to fall back on? You admit the truth.

Oh, about beer I never lie,' Crandall said. 'A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

There's really no just about it, is there?

That ain't Chanel Number Five I smell comin from the direction of your butt, is it?

lies and love rarely went together, and never for long.