Quotes About Honesty

A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent. —William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence

When you ask people if they are monogamous, I suggest you ask them first what their definition of monogamy is.

Did we really have to go through an affair just to be able to be truly honest with each other?" I hear this often and share their regret. But here's one of the unspoken truths about relationships: for many couples, nothing less extreme is powerful enough to get the partners' attention and to shake up a stale system.

Sexual honesty isn't just about divulging the details of your infidelities. It's about communicating with your partner in an open and mature way—revealing core aspects of yourself through your sexuality.

Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.

Non c'è niente di male nell'essere arrabbiato: nessuno te lo proibisce. Ma ti ci vuole una quantità tremenda di energia per continuare a fare finta di non esserlo.

Per un breve periodo si può far finta di non sapere la verità. È come trattenere il respiro. Ma alla fine bisogna riprendere aria. Più in profondità si seppellisce una bugia, più forte è la pressione quando esplode.

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.

I don't want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

Told him I was one-sided. Bigger on one side than the other, which is a deliberate, calculated falsehood: I'm the same.

MRS. SMITH: Well, this is how it was. It is difficult for me to speak openly to you, but a fireman is also a confessor.

All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.

You're worse than decent. You're virtuous.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.

I'm a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts - it's what we do.

When you make sense, you say what you believe and therefore mean what you say and therefore act in accordance with it and therefore you are who you seem to be.

They give you the chance to tell small lies so they can see how you handle the bigger ones. There's a reason lawyers tell you to shut up when a cop talks to you. If you're lucky, that's the first and last time a cop ever

You're one cold motherfucker. At least Mathis doesn't make you feel like shit." "That's so you don't see the knife coming. I'm honest.

understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

I understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.