Quotes About Honesty

Se houvesse um homem que ousase dizer tudo quanto pensa deste mundo, não lhe restaria um palmo quadrado de terra onde ficar.

For me the book is the man and my book is the man I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the recklass man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically thruthful man that I am.

A good lie reveals more than the truth can ever reveal.

The one thing I have insisted on with all of my friends, regardless of class or station in life, is to be able to speak truthfully. If I cannot be open and frank with a friend, or he with me, I drop him.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

I can never go back on what I've written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic, it was sincere; if it was in bad taste, it was on the side of life.

But of that instant I knew my wife was right, knew that I had made a grave mistake. In that moment I sensed the leech that Anaïs had tried to get rid of. I saw the spoiled child, the man who had never done an honest stroke of work in his life, the destitute individual who was too proud to beg openly but was not above milking a friend dry. I knew it all, felt it all, and already foresaw the end.

Cuando me dejó, fingía o quizá lo creyera, que era necesario para nuestro bien. Yo sabía en el fondo de mi corazón que estaba intentando liberarse de mí, pero era demasiado cobarde como para reconocerlo.

the only time a writer receives his due reward is when someone comes to him burning with this flame which he fanned in a moment of solitude, honest criticism means nothing, what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire

Que la gente pudiese hacer promesas sin tener la menor intención de cumplirlas era algo inimaginable para mí.

Squirrels are blamed for many crimes they are not responsible for, but in this case honesty compels me to say it was the squirrels done it. I saw them.

Never believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary - and remember that God is listening while you tell it.

Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. It is no secret I tell you, nor am I ashamed to declare it: I have liked to be with you, to see you, to speak with you always.

Be strong! Be good! Be pure! The right only shall endure; And all things else are but false pretenses.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

You cannot hide the soul.

It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.

I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one reason: because I did not like an owner that was not telling me the truth. And it would have made no difference what they would have offered me; I would have left.

No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.

The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.