Bette Davis Quotes

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I am not honest.

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

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

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

It's so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I'm just too lazy to lie.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.