Unyielding Honesty Quotes

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind