Quotes about Honesty
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
- Ayn Rand
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
- Oscar Wilde
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.
- Margaret Atwood
The real deal is always going to win in the end.
- Bill Hybels
Foreign governments want to lie to the American people.
- Conor Lamb
Loyalty in a critic is corruption.
- George Bernard Shaw
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
- George Eliot
Everything comes to light, Nancy, sooner or later. When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out.
- George Eliot
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.
- George Eliot
To point out other people's errors was a duty that Mr. Bulstrode rarely shrank from
- George Eliot
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
- George Eliot