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Quotes About Honesty

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.
~ Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.
~ Matthew Arnold
Any lie should be as close to the truth as possible.
~ Matthew Rhys
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
~ Maurice Sendak
It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
~ May Sarton
You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
~ Maya Angelou
The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.
~ Megan Hart
If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Be the man of no one! Instead, be the man of truth, only the truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Hardly you can see someone on the streets of truth.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If the truth is with you, let anything else be against you! You will win! If the truth is not with you but everything else is on your side, it doesn't matter, you will lose!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are after truth, let your shadow be the only shadow around you! Stay away from the crowds!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sun always finds a way to give its light; truth always finds a way to show its face!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
~ Melanie Laurent
There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!
~ Melina Marchetta
Say it. But..." "But what?" he asked. She whispered it, sounding too vulnerable. "But only if its the truth, Caine. Only. If." "I love you," he said.
~ Michael Grant
I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.
~ Michael Arrington
the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth
~ Michael Scott
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
~ Michel de Montaigne
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
~ Michel de Montaigne