Quotes on honesty
Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Hubbard, Frank McKinney
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Mohn, Edgar J.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
Sowell, Thomas
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Bierce, Ambrose
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Brault, Robert
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
Montaigne, Michel de
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
O'Malley, Austin
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Needham, Richard J.
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Montaigne, Michel de
Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
Dickinson, Emily
Truth fears no questions.
Unknown, Author
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Blake, William
Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble.
Unknown, Author
Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.
Doren, Mark van
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Paine, Thomas
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome, K.