Quotes About Honesty

She wished she had something like baseball that she could talk about with her daughter—a safe subject they could visit without subtext or aggression.

He could never replace her. And he felt he had done her a great injustice by not having told her this.

was his way to ask many questions when he wanted to know someone's mind. Most people told you their thoughts in words and later confirmed them in actions. There were more people who told the truth than those who lied. Very few people lied well.

He didn't want to play this stupid game where they wouldn't talk about what was real.

Most people told you their thoughts in words and later confirmed them in actions. There were more people who told the truth than those who lied.

People don't say "Give me your honest opinion" because they want an honest opinion. They say it because it's rude to say "Please tell me I'm amazing.

I will employ the gentle, vague expression "I'm not crazy about that on you," which should mean to you, "Holy shit, take that off, that looks terrible!" I owe it to you to give feedback like a cattle prod: painful but quick.

So my second realization was that I would rather be lonely than be friends with non-friends. Losing friends is hard, but losing fake friends, as it turns out, is pretty damn easy.

He likes to take in people past the point where the can be putting on a show to impress him.

Greta told me when I wore an outfit that was unflattering, which was how I knew she was real. And she would do it the best way anyone had ever given me an insult: "You have so much more to offer than that skirt. Find a skirt that deserves you.

And when she's at the door, Mark stops her and he says, "I like you, very much. Just as you are." It's ridiculous that I love this so much. It's so simple. It's not a witty, perfectly phrased, Ephron-y declaration by our charming, neurotic hero. It's so … plain. But the idea is the most beautiful thing in the world. So, obviously, it makes me cry.

My mother passed away in 2011. She was a warm and sociable person, but she did not suffer fools. In fact, that policy extended beyond fools. She did not suffer lazy people, pretentious people, liars, the sloppy, or the inarticulate. Basically she suffered very few people, and it was hard to earn her respect. But

Losing friends is hard, but losing fake friends, as it turns out, is pretty damn easy.

My barometer for making friends is that you can't get to know someone by hearing about everything they like—you need to hear about what they don't like. It's only when you are willing to go out on a limb by admitting you're not a fan of something that you're vulnerable enough to earn my trust.

A bunch of unearned trophies around the house would make me hooked on awards, which is bad in general, but especially bad if you don't deserve them. The whole experience made me want to win another trophy, but win it for actually doing something great.

Aha, Mine-chan, I see. It all becomes clear. And I have to hand it to you, you are a little rascal." As far as I'm concerned, there is never an excuse for bad behavior.

Let us so absorb integrity—experiencing both its triumphs and defeats—that we do the right thing intuitively.

Don't feel ashamed, girl," she said, answering my thoughts. "The truth is a noble grail to seek. But if you're after it, you must imagine, first, what it will mean to get it. The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn't offer anything besides itself." She nodded resolutely. "I'm proud I told Jackson the truth. I'm glad he died knowing who he was.

Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them.

If you leave the schoolhouse when midday is called and go roaming in the streets, all will scold you in the end. When an official sends you with a message, Tell it as he told it, Don't omit, don't add to it. He who neglects to praise, his name will not endure ; he who is skilled in all his conduct, from him nothing is hidden, he is not 'opposed anywhere.

Do not tell lies against your mother, the magistrates abhor it. The descendant who does what is good. His actions all emulate the past. Do not consort with a rowdy. It harms you when one hears of it. If you have eaten three loaves, drunk two jugs of beer, and the belly is not sated, restrain it! When another eats, don't stand there, beware of rushing to the table!

I did not seize a man's daughter, nor did I seize his field STELA OF THE TREASURER ITI OF IMYOTRU

Telling lies is their herbage.