Quotes About Honesty

The time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right.

Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes, Jean Louise. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways.

I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty-six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is.

Well, as a general rule, most women, before they've got 'em, present to their men smiling, agreeing faces. They hide their thoughts. You now, when you're feeling hateful, honey, you are hateful.

There was no point to say you were sorry if you weren't.

Pero cuando te falla un hombre que ha vivido conforme a la verdad, y has creído en lo que ha vivido, te quedas sin nada. Creo que por eso estoy a punto de volverme loca…». —¿Nueva

Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults

No ma'am, I want you to say something that did happen.

Before Jem looks at anyone else, he looks at me, and I have tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. If I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him.

Ustedes saben la verdad, y la verdad es que algunos negros mienten, algunos negros son inmorales, algunos negros no merecen la confianza de estar cerca de las mujeres... blancas o negras. Pero ésta es una verdad que se aplica a toda la especie humana y no a una raza particular de hombres.

Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.

She had never told us on, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend.

It ain't honest but it's mighty helpful to folks...but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

Los hombres tienen tendencia a clasificar su honradez por casilleros, Jean Louise. Pueden ser perfectamente honestos en ciertos aspectos y engañarse a sí mismos en otros.

Jack! When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

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Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways.

You must have lived it. If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not the truth, you are disappointed and you make sure you will not be caught out by him again. 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.

If a man says to you, This is the truth, and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not the truth, you are disappointed and you make sure you will not be caught out by him again. But a man who has lived by the 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.

That ain't honest, Mr. Raymond, making yourself out badder'n you are already-- It ain't honest but it's mighty helpful to folks

There was no point in saying you were sorry if you aren't.

But an honorable relationship, she reminds us, is one in which "we are trying, all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us…of life between us." When we are not able to speak authentically, our relationships spiral downward, as does our sense of integrity and self-regard.

How do you conceal a secret? With openness.