Quotes About Honesty

Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we know how to bend without breaking ourselves. -Crepusculo Lepidoptera

In a world grown dark with deceit there there are many who are blinded and few who can hold up a light so that we can see the way. More important, so that we can look at ourselves, as well as others, and know how similar we are to the herd.

We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs--only a price.

When I see justice sold to the highest bidder I remember Tio Baldo and how he had lost. So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs--only a price.

Virtue and wealth sometimes go together.

Never admit you're wrong when silence lies that you're right.

prevaricating

champange for my real friends. real pain for my sham friends

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

Write, and write well. But most of all write truthfully, that's enough, for the truth always hurts the wicked and evil.

That is a fart without wind....." in reference to when you can't back up what you say. very funny.

I'm a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I've invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

The thing is, Sara, writing's scary. You have to be prepared to go deep......And when your brain's shouting, 'No, no, no, I'm not going to think that thought; it's too dirty, it's too scary, it's too painful,' that's when you must make yourself think it and make yourself write it.

Le plus grand mal que tu puisses leur faire, c'est de promettre et de ne pas tenir. D'ailleurs tu le paieras cher et ce sera justice. (p. 14)