Quotes About Honesty

Truth can only be served from a scalding kettle; whether you blister or make tea is up to you.

Maybe it's the best answer of all. If more people could admit they really don't know, maybe there never would have been a War.

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

But what if your mind becomes a pathological liar?

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe.

He confessed over and over again to anyone willing to listen, until finally a police officer kindly offered to arrest him.

People who spread rumors...like lies better than they like the truth. Don't trust anyone who spreads rumors.

My real name is Shawn Dobson. Will you call me that, Rowan? Will you call me by my real name?

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

It's when you hide things that you choke on them.

Animals are inspirational. They don't know how to lie. They are natural forces.

I have, he went on, betrayed myself with belief, deluded myself with love tricked myself with sex. the bottle is damned faithful, he said, the bottle will not lie

You'll never be a writer if you hide from reality.

i'm easy to understand even when i don't understand myself...

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs

I went into the men's room and stared in the mirror at my face in disgust. I looked like I knew something, but it was a lie, I was a fake and there's nothing worse in the world than when a man suddenly realizes and admits to himself that he's a phoney, after spending all his time up to then trying to convince himself that he wasn't. I stared at all the sinks and pipes and bowls and I felt like them, worse than them: I'd rather be them.

Love is for real men.

Don't butter me, Babe.