Quotes About Honesty

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage.

It can be a sin to tell an untimely truth.

Demolish a skyscraper, but never destroy trust. The latter is harder to build.

Faithfulness at times, could mean NEVER CAUGHT CHEATING, not NEVER CHEATED.

Lies, are truths with no scrutiny

Truth is life. But before you choose to speak it get prepared to lose your life.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed.

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Either he's lying, which is bad. Or he could be telling the truth, which is worse

Don't ask for the truth, boy, unless you're ready to hear it.

I like to know the truth. That's all. I just wish the truth was different.

You're a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way.

I thought I could play at love...But I've found out I'm not made that way...I can't play this game if my heart's not in it.

Friendship didn't mean much if it was inflicted.

We may be poor, but at least we've always been honest." Something broke inside Han, and when he opened his mouth the words came spilling out. "We're

Can you see why I can't stand a lie? People have been lying to me all my life. Even the person I loved the most in the world." Sometimes people lie for good reasons," Jonah said. "To keep you safe, or to avoid breaking your heart, or to make it possible for you to go on living.

And she liked you. When she and I broke up, it had nothing to do with you." He and Madeline had split because he hadn't been ready for anything serious. When she started hinting otherwise, he'd panicked and broken things off. He wasn't proud of how he'd behaved, but he'd have been a bigger jerk if he'd led her

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

In fact, in her experience, the more honest a person seemed, the more dishonest they usually were.

Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.

The heck with it. What you see is what you get. Like it or lump it. It matters not to me.

I'm going to say [to George W Bush], 'And you tell me, what the noble cause is that my son died for.' And if he even starts to say 'freedom and democracy,' I'm going to say, 'bullshit.' You tell me the truth. You ell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died so you can spread the cancer of Pax America, imperialism, in the Middle East (2005, Voices of a People's History of the US)