Quotes About Honesty

Friendship is more important than truth.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

If you have a solid friendship before dating, there's this understanding that you can be just youBut you should still have fun hooking up!

What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'

Only a true friend would be that truly honest.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

He is extremely loyal to his friends, but he is tougher than anyone if he feels betrayed.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world