Quotes About Honesty

I am not a people pleaser. I am not a person who says things because she thinks it will make the other person happy, nor am I a person who offers things she cannot deliver because I want the other person to like me.

trust a man who doesn't like children or animals

That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.

People show you who they are not by what they say, but by what they do.

The desert seems to me the simple truth about the world.

What you saw was what you got, and she did not believe, as some of the other girls said, that the boys at the parties were separate from some sober incarnation of the same boys.

us, you have been just; you have acted faithfully, while we did wrong.

The only duty of the dreamer is to tell the truth about the dream.

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.

I tell the truth,' she said. 'But I tell it slant.

You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were due at the church in an hour.

Next time I fall in love it's going to be with someone who isn't an expert in fibbing. You're in love with me? You didn't know that? I did, but it's nice to hear. Scares the hell out of me.

Maybe it was me, Grandma said.Sometimes they sneak out.Did I fart?

You know what your problem is? You got too many scruples. One or two is okay, but you get too many of them, and it clogs everything up. What she said made no sense at all, but was probably right. I got some scruples, Lula said, but I know when to stop. There's a point where you have to say enough is enough and screw scruples.

If you can't fool yourself," he said, "how can you expect to fool anybody else?

Okay so I fibbed a little about the kids. I didn't want her to feel bad. I mean we can't all be lucky enough to have a hamster.

The law is for people who have nothing to hide.

White lies are a gray area

You'd lie to the pope." I caught myself halfway through the sign of the cross. "I almost never lie." Only when it's absolutely necessary. And on those occasions when the truth doesn't seem appropriate.

Hell, bravery didn't have anything to do with it. I was shitfaced.

And I don't think we're completely incompetent. I think we're closer to eighty percent incompetent.

Everyone tells me I'm a pain in the ass." "Then it must be true

But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger. They

Like Berlin, I was layered with guilt and destruction. I had caused grief as well as suffering it. I could never honestly point a finger without it turning around in mid-accusation. Olivia