Quotes About Honesty

Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.

You know what's wrong with this country, baby?...A man can't stay honest if he wants to...he gets chiseled out of his pants if he does. You play the game dirty or you don't eat.

What kind of work do you do mostly?" "Anything that's reasonably honest

Intentan ser honestos, pero la honestidad es un arte. El mal escritor es deshonesto sin saberlo, y el escritor más o menos bueno puede que sea deshonesto porque no sabe sobre qué ser honesto.

It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It's so much more convenient to blame others.

A small bad intention is often far more easily believed than a big one, Magnificence

Nisi se ružno ponela prema meni, Karlina. Ja sam se ponašao kao tupan. - Ne, ti si se samo ponašao kao prijatelj Rolande. Rekao si mi istinu, a ne ono što sam želela da ?ujem.

you can't cheat an honest man,' and an honest man admits his own shortcomings.

He could not challenge him on that and besides, what he said was truth, which at this moment was dangerous.

After my book Wanderlust came out in 2000, I found myself better able to resist being bullied out of my own perceptions and interpretations. On two occasions around that time, I objected to the behavior of a man, only to be told that the incidents hadn't happened at all as I said, that I was subjective, delusional, overwrought, dishonest- in a nutshell, female.

I'm not arguing here that women and children don't lie. Men, women, and children lie, but the latter two are not disproportionately prone to doing so, and men—a category that includes used-car salesmen, Baron von Münchhausen, and Richard Nixon—are not possessed of special veracity.

Calling things by their true names cuts through the lies that excuse, buffer, muddle, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness.

I think sometimes that I became a historian because I didn't have a history, but also because I was interested in telling the truth in a family in which truth was an elusive entity.

The great skill in lying is not lying, you'd say. Just leaving things out. Keeping everything as close to the actual truth as possible. Nothing overblown.

One of Dalziel's dicta for police and public was, if you can't be honest you'd better be fucking clever.

I'm not going to pretend to be something I'm not - to smile sweetly all the time - just to get recognition and love. I won't play the whore for anyone, least of all for journalists. I can't do that. I want to be loved, yes, but the way I am and not the way people would like me to be. I have to be allowed to be myself.

I want to be liked for what I do, not for what I pretend to be. I try - maybe too forcefully at times - to have the courage of my convictions and to stand my ground when necessary.

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing.

Alors l'amour est une supercherie ? - Qu'en penses tu ? - Je pense que rien de ce que tu m'as montré ne tient contre ce que j'ai à te dire. - Qu'as tu à me dire ? - Je t'aime, dit Viviane.

Le garde sut que cette femme ne mentait pas. Elle n'était pas de celles qui s'abaissent à mentir, quelles que soient les circonstances.

Let your yes be yes and your no be no.

Telling the truth is an important part of discovering who you are

Mi madre no amaba a mi padre y se lo decía. Era cruel sin dejar de ser inocente: creía en el poder misericordioso de la verdad antes que en las humillaciones de la mentira

Vrits numquam perit.