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Quotes About Honesty

Good." said Hazel. "Boy son the Internet lie." "All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie, too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.
~ Holly Black
Mortals are liars,' the Unseelie queen says with a snort. 'That doesn't mean everything they say is a lie,' I return.
~ Holly Black
I tell people everything. People only believe what they can handle. That's how I know who to trust.
~ Holly Black
She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.
~ Holly Black
If i pretend not to be scared, I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.
~ Holly Black
He peers down at me. 'You're a liar,' he says, eyes glittering with fury. 'A dirty, mortal liar.
~ Holly Black
We don't need to be good, but let's try to be fair.
~ Holly Black
He draws back. 'You really are beautiful,' he says. I am ever so glad to know that they cannot lie.
~ Holly Black
I cannot lie. I cannot deny you.
~ Holly Black
My word isn't worth much,' I remind him. 'So you keep saying.' He raises his brows. 'It's not comforting, I've got to tell you.
~ Holly Black
Even without liars, there can still be lies.
~ Holly Black
Truly, he has come by his cruelty honestly in Balekin's care. He has been raised up in it, instructed in its nuances, honed through its application. However horrible Cardan might be, I now see what he might become and am truly afraid.
~ Holly Black
Simple lies are always better than a complicated truth.
~ Holly Black
The most infuriating part was that she didn't have to mean it. She was mortal. She could lie. So why wouldn't she?
~ Holly Black
One doesn't have to lie to deceive.
~ Holly Black
I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.
~ Holly Black
How many can honestly say that they never fell in love with someone else along the way, someone they didn't pursue because they'd made a vow to stay with their spouse? How many would say they regretted that choice?
~ Unknown
To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
~ Homer
And empty words are evil.
~ Homer
It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
~ Homer Simpson
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
~ Unknown
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
~ Honore de Balzac
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
~ Honore de Balzac
La flatterie n'émane jamais des grandes âmes, elle est l'apanage des petits esprits qui réussissent à se rapetisser encore pour mieux entrer dans la sphère vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils gravitent. La flatterie sous-entend un intérêt. (p.239/317)
~ Honore de Balzac