“He utterly honored his sorrow, gave in to it with such deep and boundless weeping that it seemed as I stood there he was the bravest man I had ever known.”
Source: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
“When corruption is the priority, honesty becomes evil.”
“If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.”
Source: Dissolution
“A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence.”
Source: Man and Superman
“What we recognize and applaud as honesty and transparency in an individual is actually the humble demeanor of the apprentice, someone paying extreme attention, to themselves, to others, to life, to the next step, which they may survive or they may not; someone who does not have all the answers but who is attempting to learn what they can, about themselves and those with whom they share the journey, someone like everyone else, wondering what they and their society are about to turn into. We are neither what we think we are nor entirely what we are about to become, we are neither purely individual nor fully a creature of our community, but an act of becoming that can never be held in place by a false form of nomenclature.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.
BEATRICE
Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.
DON PEDRO
You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.
BEATRICE
So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“I know a lie when I hear one.”
“Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.”
Source: Shantaram
“I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter.”
Source: The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
“I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.”
Source: The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 32: The Illustrated London News, 1920-1922