Quotes About Honesty

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.

You can say anything you want to say. I'm just Bill Foley.

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

I'm not really trying to break the bank like some other people. I just want what's fair.

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.

I think," Jace said, "that you don't want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...

So I lied to you last night. I said that I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

For me, I focus on trying to get it right and be as fair as possible. There's not much else I can do. People will believe what they want - facts be damned.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

If you live far away from a person you no longer want to date just let them know that they are geographically undesirable.

If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.

It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.