Quotes About Honesty

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

Never break faith with the truth.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.

Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

You cant have justice unless you have truth.