Quotes About Honesty

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

Truth stands for Taking Real Understanding To Heart.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]

All truths are not to be told.

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.