Quotes About Honesty

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The bourgeoisie, reassured, strutted about in good humor, thanks to its wealth and the contagion of its stupidity. The result of its accession to power had been the destruction of all intelligence, the negation of all honesty, the death of all art, and, in fact, the debased artists had fallen on their knees, and they eagerly kissed the dirty feet of the eminent jobbers and low satraps whose alms permitted them to live.

La verdad no se dice ¡Se hace! Lo único que se dice es la mentira.

El pulpero. A buena cuenta.

El que miente es traidor: sus víctimas le escuchan suponiendo que dice la verdad. El mentiroso conspira contra la quietud ajena, falta al repeto a todos, siembra la inseguridad y la desconfianza. Aborrece la sinceridad. Dice que ella es fuente de escándalo y anarquía, como si pudiese culparse a la escoba de que exista la suciedad.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.

Because one does not write poetry in order to flatter and to lie. Well, they've called me a poet, but they'll never call me a fool.

So much power places in human hands, the hands of ignorant and willful men, withoutm oral training, without proven honesty, is a weapon placed in the hands of a madman let loose in an unarmed crowd. I admit, and I want to believe like you, that the Government needs this strong right arm, but it should choose it well, from among the most worthy, and since it prefers to confer authority on itself rather than receive it from the people, let it at least show that it knows how to do so.

it's not criminals who provoke great hatred, it's honest men

My... I'm not going to read that because it's only a lie

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Write whatever you want. Danny, my dear friend, write and tell me what life really is.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.

Were all the vexations of life put together, we should find that a great part of them proceed from those calumnies and reproaches we spread abroad concerning one another.

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Everybody tells lie sometimes, she replied . Wouldn't be human if you didn't. But mostly I tell the truth. - Alice

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.