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Quotes About Honesty

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
~ Paul Harding
At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
What, can the devil speak true?
~ William Shakespeare
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
~ Charlotte Lennox
Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.
~ Charles Kingsley
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
~ Joseph Joubert
The truth just happens - lies take time to make.
~ Michael Cudlitz
Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
~ Horace Mann
I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
~ William Shakespeare
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
~ John Locke
The Truth never flaunted a sign.
~ Emily Dickinson
A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.
~ Khalil Gibran
Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail
~ Richard Paul Evans
Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.
~ Steven Weber
Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
~ Bill Jay
The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.
~ Simone Weil
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Do the truth quietly without display.
~ Brennan Manning
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
~ Hesiod
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
~ Mason Cooley
If I told you Jesus Christ was black you're going to be afraid of me because I'm telling you the truth. That's where I always come from.
~ Rick James