Quotes About Honesty

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

On cannot be precise, and still be true.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

Hear the truth from whomever says it

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.