Quotes About Honesty

Zna?i sve... On podigne ruke. Sve je bila laž? Mi nismo laž, re?e ona. Nisu moji osje?aji prema tebi. Nije moje ponašanje prema tebi. Ništa što se ti?e nas nikada nije bila laž. Nijedan poljubac. Nijedan zagrljaj. Nijedan osje?aj. Ti nisi volio laž. Ti si volio mene.

Politicians used deception and slick packaging to create an image a person could trust.

Uh-huh," Loren said. "Do me a favor, Lance. Pretend I'm your wife and skip the foreplay.

Are you saying that a person is entitled to their secrets?" "Of course they are." She looked at him then, in a funny way, and he didn't much like it. "Do you have secrets?" she asked him.

The ugliest truth is better than the prettiest lie.

Home was a secure haven for that—a familial cone of honesty, if you will.

The secret is honey.

The explanations a writer gives himself for having written any particular book are more often not the real reasons why that book has been written. Honesty is not the issue. Understanding is. A man does not write one novel at a time or even one quatrain at a time. He is engaged in the long process of putting his whole life on paper. He is on a journey and he is reporting in: 'This is where I think I am and this is what this place looks like today.'" The

The minute people fall in love, they become liars. You'd

when we lose our commitment to accuracy, honesty, and justice, we lose our ability to make a difference, because we also lose our vision of what is possible. Harlan

The only difference, I suppose, between them and me is that I never set out to write shit. (That is: merely sufficient, average.) And of all the crimes that may be attributed to me—numbering among them rudeness, lechery, viciousness, imprudence and disgusting egocentricity—the one that can never be laid on me is the one epitomized by the line, "I just write what they want, by Tuesday, take the money and run.

DIscuss narking as a character flaw.

In war, truth is the first casualty. —AESCHYLUS

Leaders at all levels must know their stuff, be dead honest, have unquestioned personal integrity, set the example, and treat their people "fair and square.

Don't talk like that, Dill," said Aunt Alexandra. "It's not becoming to a child. It's – cynical." "I ain't cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin' the truth's not cynical, is it?" "The way you tell it, it is.

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I'm nearly out of my mind.

But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing.

Were you so scared that she'd hurt you, you ran, a big buck like you? No suh, I's scared I'd be in court, just like I am now. Scared of arrest, scared you'd have to face up to what you did? No suh, scared I'd hafta face up to what I didn't do.

Scout: Why are you entrusting us your deepest secret? Mr. Raymond: Because you're children and you can understand it.

I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.

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