Quotes About Honesty

'Walking and Talking' is my autobiography. It's best to do it that way, rather than spend months writing a book that then ends up in the bargain bucket with all the other idiots' autobiographies.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say. Paradoxically, only through the essential instantaneity of music could you approach its eternal pertinence.

I'm a priest, I know better than most when a lie is permitted.

It was hard to tell what her weapons were, except for that sort of inane good sense and emotional honesty.

Too much truth got in the way.

Ask me no questions and I'll spell you no lies, she said.

However, if you want to know how people would like to be treated, it's more helpful to look at how they themselves act than what they say.

I have an idea of who I wish I were, and that obscures my understanding of who I actually am. Sometimes I pretend even to myself to enjoy activities that I don't really enjoy, such as shopping, or to be interested in subjects that don't much interest me, such as foreign policy.

Make it easy to do right and hard to go wrong.

Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.

To be simple is no small matter.

L'action, pour certains hommes, est d'autant plus impraticable que le désir est plus fort. La méfiance d'eux-mêmes les embarrasse, la crainte de déplaire les épouvante; d'ailleurs, les affections profondes ressemblent aux honnêtes femmes; elles ont peur d'être découvertes, et passent dans la vie les yeux baissés.

Ama l'arte; fra tutte le menzogne è ancora quella che mente di meno.

inconnus, s'enthousiasmait pour une oeuvre ou pour un homme, et, s'obstinant alors, ne regardant à rien, multipliait les courses, les correspondances, les réclames. Il se croyait fort honnête, et, dans son besoin d'expansion, racontait naïvement ses indélicatesses.

We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.

Bouvard and Pécuchet put forward their abominable paradoxes on other occasions. They cast doubt on the honesty of men, the chastity of women, the intelligence of the government, the good sense of the people, in a word undermined the basic principles.

Los discursos exagerados solo sirven para encubrir afectos mediocres.

Elle se sentait noyée dans le mépris de ces gredins honnêtes qui l'avaient sacrifiée d'abord, rejetée ensuite, comme une chose malpropre et inutile.

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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!