Trust is like sand, one lie and it slips away.

Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.

A lie is still a lie even if it's disguised as the truth.

Regarding 'Jabez's Prayer', I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many, and the least of them are the fleshlier ones: the really deadly ones...

It is better to accept the truth than a temporary lie.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm? I said....

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I

I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth. She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?"

tell the truth interestingly.

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

I'm only telling you the truth, if you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.

A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, 'What do...

I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. Is this okay? I whisper. Are you okay?His reply is anguished. Honest. I love you.

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

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when...

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

You should have seen him," she said. "A real ladies' man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.