Quotes About Honesty

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.

Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

Is not the truth the truth?

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)

I know every politician spins the truth a little.

Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood.

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.