Quotes About Honesty

A lament is an act of worship, a faith statement of trust, in the face of difficulty. It's a wonderfully honest way to acknowledge our trouble to God as we also acknowledge our hope is in him.

The truth is so rare, Alex. I like to use it sparingly

But sometimes we have to be brave in order to dig deep and find answers. Even if we're not sure we're going to like the answers.

Now our bones are revealed like truth.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Truth loves the light...It never stays buried forever.

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

But you do choose not to reveal all the facts, which the way I see it is another form of lying." She sipped her wine.

I've lied / to you The same way that I always do This is / the last smile That I'll fake for the sake of being with you

But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

The secret is that there is no secret.

never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.

But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.

I am confessedly and unashamedly almost fifty years old and never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.

He had learned what all skilled liars register if they're ever to make a career of it: Always appropriate as much of the truth as possible. A wellconstructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact

And Lawrence was afraid of the main thing. He had a tendency to talk feverishly all around the main thing, as if bundling it with twine. Presumably if he talked in circles around the main thing for long enough it would lie there, vanquished, panting on its side, like a roped steer.

Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.

Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

We all do it (or I used to-yes, once in a while, Franklin, what did you think?), we all know we all do it, but it isn't customary to say, "Honey, could you keep an eye on the spaghetti sauce, because I'm going to go masturbate.

So much lying in marriage is merely a matter of keeping quiet.

His face churned. That was the point, before he said a word, that he broke her heart. The contortion of those muscles paraded a decision over whether to tell her the truth. Once he finally spoke, Lawrence's opting for the honesty route didn't nearly compensate for the fact that candor had been a choice. For an alternative direction to have beckoned, it was probably well trod.

No such thing as larger-than-life, Kellogg. There's only life-size, and any magnification is just other people's bullshit.

Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.