Quotes About Honesty

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.

The true test of a man's character is how he behaves when no one is watching.

Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows

Honesty is a very expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

I wouldn't be lying. I'd just be editing my report for length.

A fool is twice a fool who tries to conceal it.

My son, when thou sayest: All women are liars, it is easy to thee. But he who perceiveth when they are lying, I say unto thee, he is a man of understanding.

Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of strange women, she will expose their craft; and of her who flattereth thee, will she make known the reason.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies or bland deceits.

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

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

You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils. And

Well, ye're an honest rebel—rebel, yes, rebel. Hark ye, hark. Say nothing of this talk to any one. And hark again. So long as you remain here at Kew, I shall see that you are safe—safe. God bless your Majesty! Eh? God bless your noble Majesty? Come—come—come, smiled the king in delight, I thought I could conquer ye—conquer ye. Not the king, but the king's kindness, your Majesty.

If man will strike, strike through the mask!

Starbuck was an honest, upright man; but out of Starbuck's heart, at that instant when he saw the muskets, there strangely evolved an evil thought; but so blent with its neutral or good accompaniments that for the instant he hardly knew it for itself.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.