Quotes About Honesty

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

Platitudes Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

I can't say it. Now, at last, it becomes impossible for me to mouth the words -- I'm fine. I won't say anything.

Puzzavo di libri e di onestà.

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.

I realized you know what? That is not how I wanna live my life; I don't want to be responsible for creating a safeness space for somebody else to open, I want them to meet me there

Whatever you write, let it be the truth.

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

Men were notorious for their acts of disloyalty.

If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.

Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating.

The only antidote to the unnerving effects of such incoherence is integrity. People and organizations with integrity are wholly themselves. No aspect of self stands different or apart. At their center is clarity, not conflict. When they go inside to find themselves, there is only one self there.

I feel at home, choosing to live inside my own imagination, savage and natural, yet I also long to be honest about my desire to love and be loved. Am I an unearthly creature, part vampire, part werewolf? Or perhaps... poetry is my beastly mind's only curse.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

so often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was the other way round: i was hiding from them.

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

I would have made a very crappy book heroine.

It is up to us to choose what is right. No one can make us eat a lie," she answers.

I am too honest to pretend to feelings I don't have. I am happy when I make you happy and when you do not trouble my happiness.