Quotes About Honesty

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools.

Roy had communicated, days earlier, to the Zen master that I was a drunk - unreliable - either faint-hearted or vicious - therefore during the cerimony, don't ask Bukowski for the rings because Bukowski might not be there. or he might loose the rings, or vomit, or loose Bukowski

The trouble with a mask is it never changes.

Ljudi duguju jedni drugima izvesnu vernost, ?ak i kad nisu u braku. U neku ruku, poverenje bi onda trebalo da je dublje, jer nije ozakonjeno.

she wants me to write a love poem but I think if people can't love each other's assholes and farts and shits and terrible parts just like they love the good parts, that ain't complete love.

Orosopular? ve çingeneleri severim: Birisi namuslu numaras? yapmaz DiÄŸeri milliyetçilik aya??na yatmaz

and soon we realized that we were all lying, not exactly lying but mostly

Bedno sam se ose?ao što ne mogu da ga hvalim bez rezerve. Ali ako lažeš ?oveka o njegovom talentu samo zato što sedi prekoputa tebe, to je najneoprostivija od svih laži, jer ga podsti?e da produži sa tim, da nastavi, što je najgori na?in za ?oveka bez istinskog talenta da stra?i svoj život. Mnogi ljudi baš to i ?ine, uglavnom prijatelji i ro?aci.

You understand, we just don't fuck with truth.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody.

It made me feel low that I couldn't praise him without reservation. 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.

If you managed to fool a man, it doesn't mean he's a fool, it means you were trusted more than you deserve.

Stop insisting on clearing your head—clear your fucking heart instead.

He that speaks seldom and opportunely, being as good as his word, is the only man they love," Wood explained. Character

Dear God, please don't grant me one of those magic mirrors. The ones that make a person see only what they want to believe about themselves--not as others actually see them. I'd rather be aware of myself, including the flaws, and keep it real. Amen.

Here lies she who never lied; Whose skill often has been tried: Her prophecies shall still survive, And ever keep her name alive.

I consider it a mutual duty, that we owe to each other, to communicate in a spirit of the utmost frankness and candor. Let it ever be done with unlocked hearts.

You'll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you've been all along.

He is so full of manure, that man, we could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him. Ruby about her dad in Cold Mountain

Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most potent available argument against Lily, Bud stuck his hands into his coat pockets and pulled out the many bundles of hundreds and threw them on the bedspread. If you were honest and stupid, you worked a couple of lifetimes for that kind of money, doled out by the hour in pocket-change amounts by asswipe bosses.

You'll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you've been all along.

I venerate an honest obliquity of understanding. The more laughable blunders a man shall commit in your company, the more tests he giveth you, that he will not betray or overreach you. I love the safety, which a palpable hallucination warrants ; the security, which a word out of season ratifies. And take my word for this, reader, and say a fool told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his com position.

You can put your boots in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits. - You can say whatever you want about something, but that doesn't change what it is.