Quotes about Honesty

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

Foreign governments want to lie to the American people.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest a lot of poor fools as ever burned their betters.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Everything comes to light, Nancy, sooner or later. When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out.

I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

To point out other people's errors was a duty that Mr. Bulstrode rarely shrank from

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all. —SIR