Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

it's always best to tell the truth.

My parents taught me the importance of telling the truth no matter what.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

Honesty is better than any policy.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.