Quotes about Honesty
Now let us see what the philosophers say. Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.
— Mark Twain
Everybody lies—every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception—and purposely. Even in sermons—but that is a platitude. In
— Mark Twain
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie-the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.
— Mark Twain
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
— Mark Twain
After much reflection—suppose it was a lie? What then? Was it such a great matter? Aren't we always acting lies? Then why not tell them?
— Mark Twain
To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.
— Mark Twain
No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying.
— Mark Twain
Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.
— Mark Twain
Everybody lies--every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception--and purposely. Even in sermons--but that is a platitude.
— Mark Twain
The man who speaks an injurious truth lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.
— Mark Twain
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
— Mark Twain
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
— Martin Luther King, Jr.