Quotes About Honesty

Rather than Love, rather than Money, than Faith, than Fame, than Fairness, give me Truth.

the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.

People today spend interminable hours telling each other "where they're coming from," and "where they're at," when all that they are doing is inventing implausible little fictions about themselves and their lives. Every new relationship is begun with the dubious exchange of these quirkly little maps.

To say the Truth, I have often concluded, that the honest Part of Mankind would be much too hard for the knavish, if they could bring themselves to incur the Guilt, or thought it worth their while to take the Trouble.

Whether his religion was real, or consisted only in appearance, I shall not presume to say, as I am not possessed of any touchstone which can distinguish the true from the false.

The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth: by which it may be fairly inferred, that, in some cases, to lie is not only excusable but commendable. And

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us

THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak!

And much addicted to speaking the truth. In her younger years she was a good deal of a romp, and, though it is an awkward confession to make about one's heroine, I must add that she was something of a glutton.

prevaricated

Takes him to her heart and yet thinks he cheats? Yes, said Kate—that's the way people are. What they think of their enemies, goodness knows, is bad enough; but I'm still more struck with what they think of their friends.

But I care myself if I tell fibs; I never tell them unless there's something rather good to be gained.

We've played our dreadful game, and we've lost. We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to our feeling for ourselves and for each other, not to wait another day.

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

galantuomo—'and no mistake.' There

Vertrauen ist das Gefühl, einem Menschen sogar dann glauben zu können, wenn man weiß, dass man an seiner Stelle lügen würde.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

Don't look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

I am not drunk, and I am not sentimental, and I tell you you are the most wonderful woman in the world.

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.

There are times when I myself no longer know whether I said and did the things I report or whether I dreamed them up. Anyway, I always dream true. If I lie a bit now and then it is mainly in the interest of truth.

to love or be loved is no crime. the really criminal thing is to make a person believe that he or she is the only one you could ever love.