Quotes about Honesty

So that's the balance that we want to see—honesty, urgency, and joy. Honesty and urgency with no joy gives us a grim determination (read Philippians). Honesty and joy with no urgency gives us a carelessness about time (read 2 Peter). And urgency and joy with no honesty leads us into distorted claims about immediate benefits of the gospel (read 1 Peter).

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

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

You can't pray a lie.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.