Quotes About Honesty

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.

Hate me a little if you will. But I think you are one of those who would rather look truth in the face than live in a fool's paradise; and you might not have lived in it so very long.

Il peggio è spesso la verità.

Don't you think you're being rather morbid?' I asked. 'Yes,' said Megan. 'That's what people always say when you're saying the truth.

To hide the truth, never does it avail, madame! Be brave and tell him everything.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself. I'd made a point of that at school and onwards, boasted about things a bit, said a few things stretching the truth a bit I wasn't ashamed of it. Uriah something his name was, always going about being humble and rubbing his hands, and actually planning and scheming behind that humility. I didn't want to be like that." -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

I'd rather tell you than have you snooping around finding out.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Never hurt a woman unless you absolutely and positively mean it" - James "The Buck" Bukowitz

People have a hard time ignoring a person who speaks their mind let alone forgive them for doing something they could never do

People tend to deny their personal truths because it makes them feel ugly. People will do anything to feel beautiful, even if it means having to lie to themselves

Start cutting corners on whatever it is you do and those corners will seek to get even with you sooner or later

To deny expression is a form of lying and a mode of suicide.

Voicing one's virtues is the deadliest of vices

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

We never really get away with anything.

Fight against graft needs statesmen, not politicians' Akhbar Satar

We need clean, sincere anti-graft warrior Akhbar satar

We only need a simple software to solve corruption problem provided the handlers possess integrity.

All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.*

Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie

But I have undertaken this series with the feeling that I must not be afraid of shaming myself, and that I should try telling myself the things I am always telling my juniors.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.