Quotes About Honesty

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

The historian's task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and live properly. A well organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

Love is what's left when being in love has gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.

never fall for anyone who prefers speaking someone else's words.

You can't be loyal to others if you're not loyal to your own nature first.

If what you're sowing isn't evil, you should have nothing to fear.

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

I don't want friends who are kind without really liking me and I don't want anybody who is kind just so as not to be unpleasant.

Seules la passion et la joie peuvent être honnêtes. Rien de ce qu'on m'a forcée à faire n'a jamais apporté de joie. Ni à moi ni à ceux qui m'entourent.

Mari," said Jonna, "sometimes you're really a little too obvious." "Do you think? But once in a while a person just needs to say what doesn't need to be said. Don't you think?

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

I tried to tell people about it, but I was drunk: they thought I was talking in riddles or metaphors.

Silence is better than a fabrication.

People will forgive a penitent enemy before they forgive a professed friend.

BARBARA: Johnna . . . what did my father say to you? (Pause.) JOHNNA: He talked a lot about his daughters . . . his three daughters, and his granddaughter. That was his joy. BARBARA: Thank you. That makes me feel better. Knowing that you can lie.

Not true," Slim Willie had said, laughing. "Your mama was pure when I met her, and I ain't never touched a ho.

For just this moment, he wanted her to see him for who he was, without the pity he knew she'd feel when she found out the truth.

if we follow the example of the psalmist The Psalms are an honest expression of emotions.

It would be years before it was operating the way a proper city should - which is to say, messily, but more or less freely and honestly, with its citizens accountable to one another and to those they've chosen to represent them, rather than to entities, spectral or otherwise, whose own interests are not in the interest of the people.

a lie stands on one foot but the truth stands on 2.

NO TALKING. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT TALKING IT WILL BE ASSUMED YOU ARE CHEATING.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.