Category: Honesty Quotes SMS

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.  ~Richard J. Needham

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.  ~Mark TwainHHQ

Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.  ~Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education, 1943LCD

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.  ~E.V. LucasCUL

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.  ~Thomas JeffersonGCLE

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.  ~Aristotle

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.  ~Jerome K. Jerome

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.  ~R.D. LaingCUL

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer?s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the […]

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.  ~Josh Billings

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.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

It takes two to lie.  One to lie and one to listen.  ~"Homer Simpson," from the television show The Simpsons

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.  ~Bertrand Russell

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.  ~Author Unknown

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Dare to be true:  nothing can need a lie:  A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.  ~George Herbert

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.  ~Mark Twain

The truth is more important than the facts.  ~Frank Lloyd Wright

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.  ~Emily Dickinson

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.  ~John Updike

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.  ~Edgar J. Mohn

Beware of the half truth.  You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.  ~Author Unknown

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.  ~Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman, Excalibur, based on Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.  ~Winston Churchill

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.  ~Saki, "Clovis upon the Alleged Romance of Business," The Square Egg; CTO

A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.  ~Terri Guillemets

A little candor never leaves me.  It is what protects me.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. MerwinTPV

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.  ~Mark Twain

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.  ~Abraham LincolnGCLE

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.  ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator

Always tell the truth.  Even if you have to make it up.  ~Author Unknown

A half truth is a whole lie.  ~Yiddish Proverb

Truth fears no questions.  ~Unknown

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.  ~Mark Twain

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.  ~Austin O’Malley

Reality is bad enough.  Why should I tell the truth?  ~Patrick SkySD