Quotes About Honesty

Id rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

Some true love turned and not a false turned true.

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend.

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

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelings and live with the consequences. This is the first requirment of love, and it makes us vulnerable to other people who may ridicule us. But our vulnerability is the only thing we can give to other people.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

I'm weaker than you know.

...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, --else it is none.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

They do not love that do not show their love.

It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

True love won't lie, but you won't know unless you give it a try. Cupid doesn't lie, but you won't know unless you give it a try.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

A Lovers a liar, to himself he lies. The truthful are loveless, like oysters their eyes

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.