Quotes About Honesty

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it.

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

If it's the truth you seek, then darling love you'll find.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

The more you act the further you get away from the truth.

Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.

The truth can't be hidden for long.

Love truth, and pardon error.

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.