Quotes About Honesty

They don't say what they mean." "No one says what they mean." "No one says what they mean all the time. Most people say what they mean sometimes. Usually." "Teenagers done know what they mean.

But some secrets are secrets, whereas some secrets are lies.

You have to tell. It can't be a secret. Secrets make everyone alone.

He could say it,' Roo explained, and his mother was surprised to hear his voice, 'and it wouldn't matter. For just a minute, it was like we didn't all have to be carrying around this crazy secret.' Rosie and Penn found themselves looking at Ben as if he were the one who could tell them whether all this was true or just boyish bullshittery. 'Secrets are heavy things,' he said, absolving neither his brothers nor his parents.

It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

It may not be elegant but it's true: There is no place for bullshit in a disaster zone.

If Nana thinks you're trying to scam her, she'll tell you, and if she thinks you ruined her life by discontinuing Arnold's Thin bread, she'll let you know that, too. I guess when you spend eighty-seven years swallowing other people's bullshit, there comes a time when you gotta spit some back.

That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're headed with this, but I don't think it's there yet. Dig deeper, babe, and come back with something more." And that's what you do, you dig waaaaaaaay down and you walk around the block eight million times and then you have it -- shazam! And it all comes together in something soooo much better than you thought you were capable of.

They say the truth will set you free, but what nobody tells you is that sometimes the truth will also make you miserable.

Those who want the truth, get truth. Those who want lies, get lies no matter what I say.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

Can he love truth who can take a knave to his bosom?

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.