Quotes About Honesty

I sincerely apologize for copying your wife without her knowledge or permission.

Don't say that!" I was starting to cry and didn't bother hiding it from her. "Is it because I told you I've never had a real girlfriend? And that I'm a virgin? Because-

Uma pessoa consegue guardar um segredo, mas não duas.

Pues sabes una cosa? Que tú también eres como siempre creí que serías: feo como el culo.

Oh, and by the way Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

The Facts were right there waiting for me,hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

Preserving one's true nature is arduous—and the more so when one is weighed down with goods.

Lo que no perdono en mi época no es lo de ser cobarde, sino tener que construir cada día la coartada de la propia cobardía difamando a los héroes

En este libro no habrán de ser objeto de embellecimiento los defectos y las culpas, los fallos y las insuficiencias, propios o ajenos. Para ser honesto, hay que saber. Para ser valiente, hay que comprender. Para ser justo no es lícito olvidar. Cuando la barbarie aplasta bajo su yugo hay que luchar, no puedo uno permitirse el permanecer callado. Quien calle en un época como esta traiciona su misión humana.

Um ehrlich zu sein, muß man wissen. Um tapfer zu sein, muß man verstehen. Um gerecht zu sein, darf man nicht vergessen. Wenn das Joch der Barbarei drückt, muß man kämpfen und darf nicht schweigen. Wer in solcher Zeit schweigt, verrät seine menschliche Sendung.

Nichts belastet den politisch Handelnden schuldvoller als Verschweigen, er muß die Wahrheit sagen, sei sie noch so drückend, nur die Wahrheit steigert die Kraft, den Willen, die Vernunft.

Io credo a quello che trovo scritto. A voce si dicono un sacco di bugie. Ma quando uno le scrive, allora è vero.

yo creo en lo que veo escrito. Hablando se dicen un monton de mentiras. Pero cuando uno las escribe es verdad.

Era così bellissima vicina, le labbra appena aperte. Mi commuovono quelle di una donna, nude quando si accostano a baciare, si spogliano di tutto, dalle parole, in giù. "Chiudi questi benedetti occhi di pesce" "Ma non posso. Se tu vedessi quello che vedo io, non li potresti chiudere" "Da dove ti spuntano questi complimenti, piccolo giovanotto?" "Che complimenti ? Dico quello che vedo".

Whether an honest performer wishes to convey the truth or whether a dishonest performer wishes to convey a falsehood, both must take care to enliven their performances with appropriate expressions, exclude from their performances expressions that might discredit the impression being fostered, and take care lest the audience impute unintended meanings.