Quotes About Honesty

Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness.

nothing puts a girl off faster than when some

All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.

I'm not too chicken, she said. I know exactly what I want. I honestly thought I could do this with you, the whole friends-with-benefits thing. She slowly shook her head, her eyes suspiciously shiny. But as it turns out, I can't. Now with you, Adam. With you, I want it all. (...) It's not that simple for me, he heard himself say. Of course it is. Life is as simple as you make it, Adam. You're born. You live. You die. I don't plan on dying without doing the living part, though.

So we're still…friends?" Aubrey asked. "We weren't ever really friends," Ali admitted. "I'm too jealous of your hair.

We're sisters. Sisters are supposed to tell." "Yes, but I'm the oldest." She went into some complicated upside-down yoga pose. "Oldest sisters are supposed to be perfect." "Says who?" "Older sisters.

He slid a hand into her hair, tightening his grip enough to lightly tug her head up so that she was looking into his eyes again. "Don't make promises you can't keep.

She wasn't going there again. Ever. Nope, she needed transparency from a man. And Parker, for all his bad-boy, cowboy 'tude and cocky swagger, wasn't anything close to transparent. At all. And that made him downright dangerous to her.

I'm an ass." "I appreciate you realizing that.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

Billy squinted at me. Why are you letting them go? Because they're real. How do you know? The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

The worst lies are almost always silence—or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.

Let me be clear that I never offered House Astor an insult... Nor did I insult Reginald. I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern.

An honest man is a rare treasure.

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

Righteous. The real deal. He's honest, loyal, faithful. He lives his ideals. It gives him power.

I am pure of heart and mind," I told her. "I cannot be corrupted.

My own aches and bruises and cuts and wounds pained me, but it was an honest, stretchy pain, something that was healing.

Ma'am, the way this usually works is that I ask you a question, and then you tell me a lie. If you give me a dishonest answer before I have the chance to ask the question, it offends my sense of propriety." Her

Because it needs to be said," she murmured. "Because that's what happened. You deserve to know that.

Because nothing cuts through bullshit like a proper fireball.

No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you.