honesty Quotes

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“a man can be honest in any sort of skin.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“when you find that people are not telling you the truth—look out!”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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“Men like women, certainly their wives, to be quite as fair as they are; and women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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“When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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“Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way—in such a way that often nobody believes me!”

― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking

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“Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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