Quotes About Honesty

But the thing about monsters was, you couldn't talk to them about it, because they wouldn't admit they were monsters in the first place.

There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.

At that moment, when he should have been most lucidly present, he had no idea whether he was lying or telling the truth.

What's wrong with lying?... A lie is a blow to the tyranny of fact.

If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not in the modest doses that idealism offers, but in immoderate quantities, thousand-gallon-barrel gulps. He would taste the bitterness, but it would not make his head turn, as it does Schiller's, or Dostoevsky's, or even Socrates', whose head, as we know, could stand any quantity of wine, but went spinning with the most commonplace lie.

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself.

It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, "Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3." ... WELL, THEN IT'S MINUS 3, A**HOLE!

This book also contains what some people call 'profanity'. I think they're full of shit.

'Be what you would seem to be'—or, if you'd like it put more simply—'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.'

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Naked means you don't have on clothes. Necked means you don't have on clothes and are up to something.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

There's a need for music that has urgency and emotional honesty. That's why people are reintroducing themselves to guitar music - that instrument has an ability to emote.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I think my biggest appeal for fans is probably the fact that I'm honest. I'm up front about who I am. I'm a little naughty. I have a naughty side and everybody knows that. But I know when to use that and when not to.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.