Quotes About Honesty

But we had never gone out of our way to reveal ourselves, either. Instead, we'd let the facts speak for themselves.

I've never kissed anyone for real, in a romantic way, before. I hadn't lied to the drag-on lady. I don't think my pillow counts. (Should I confess this to Snarl in the notebook? Full disclosure, so he had a fair chance to run? (Nah.)

Sometimes attraction is the only truth serum you need.

Why do you lie I ask her. To block the truth. Fair enough. Naomi goes on. Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.

The greatest act of love—indeed, the only religion she could comprehend—was to speak the truth about the world.

Let me begin afresh. Perhaps, this time, to tell the truth. For in the biting hush of ink on paper, where truth ought raise its head and speak without fear, I have long lied.

Truth-telling is a luxury for those whose lives aren't at risk.

Yet will you love a woman, if she prizes truth over softness?

She'd come here in order to be in a place where polite lies weren't possible

Ignorance is now your great enemy, and I do none any favor by flattering you that you are not ignorant.

Yet to die alone would be honest. For is not life solitary, and every thinker lonely?

two people: the one inside that was the truth, and the one outside that almost everyone believed him to be.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

this world is intended to toughen us for the next life. She says that our honesty, integrity, courage, and determined resistance to evil are evaluated at the end of our days here, and that if we come up to muster, we will be conscripted into an army of souls engaged in some great mission in the next world. Those who fail the test simply cease to exist. In short, Stormy sees this life as boot camp. She calls the next life "service.

When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you will create a smaller life within your main life. The first secret will spin off other secrets that also must be kept, complicated webs of evasion that grow into elaborate architectures of repressed truths and subterfuge, until you discover that you must live two narratives at once.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern the truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

Stormy Llewellyn didn't want a pedestal. She wanted only someone who would look her straight in the eyes and always tell her the truth.

Then she looked into the shepherd's eyes and saw what is to be seen in every dog's eyes if it has not been broken by a cruel master: trust, strength without arrogance, a desire to give and receive affection—and an honesty so pure that deception, if contemplated, cannot be perpetrated.

You must never lie to yourself, or you are left with no one to trust.

Truth could not be redefined. Truth was what it was.

Truths we don't want to hear always make the teller ugly to us.

I think dogs were put in this world to remind humanity that love, loyalty, devotion, courage, patience, and good humor are the qualities that, with honesty, are the essence of admirable character and the very definition of a life well lived.

Between a man and woman in love, no lie is small or harmless.