Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

Honesty will never break you.

Honesty is the best policy.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

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

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

I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

I'm honest to a fault.

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

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

I don't like to tell lies.

Honesty is all you need.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.