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Quotes About Honesty

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
~ George Saunders
Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
~ George Mikes
Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'
~ Marina Abramovic
It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.
~ George Carlin
It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
~ Oscar Wilde
Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.
~ Morrissey
Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.
~ Franny Billingsley, Chime
The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
~ Sydney J. Harris
I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.
~ Shannen Doherty
Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.
~ Demetri Martin
You just be honest about who you are, and if you dont end up with any friends, then good for you.
~ Chelsea Handler
Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.
~ Shalom Auslander
It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real!
~ Ethan Luck
One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret.
~ Jessica Pallington West
I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)
~ Lisi Harrison, The Clique
He wanted more, as did I, but we still had a ways to go. I wasn't a tease and my demands seemed pretty reasonable: always be honest and try not to eat me. ~ Sam, Living Violet
~ Jaime Reed
Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.
~ Karl Germain
It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.
~ Lois Greiman, Unplugged
Friends are nice. You can tell' 'em stuff, but you can swear like a gangster at an enemy. And that's all right, too.
~ Lois Greiman, Unscrewed
Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen
~ Lois Greiman, One Hot Mess
I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo
~ Cora Carmack, Faking It
The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you.
~ Scott B. Pruden
He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah