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Quotes About Honesty

Mengejek adalah cara yang sangat tidak menyenangkan untuk menyatakan kebenaran.
~ Lillian Hellman
What do you communicate to your husband? One wife put it like this: I told God about his bad points, and I told him about his good points.
~ Linda Dillow
Do I like living with Daniel's family? No. Would I ever tell him that? No. I know I'm all about honesty and saying what I think, but sometimes people are more important than the truth.
~ Linda Gerber
To speak candidly, with neither justification nor humiliation, relieves the haunting of memory and mind and becomes one way to regain our dignity and our strength.
~ Linda Gray Sexton
Faithfulness." She thought of her second fiance, the bastard. "Life's too short to waste it on someone you can't trust. You should be able to depend on the man you love not to lie to you or cheat on you. If you have that as a base, you can work on the other stuff.
~ Linda Howard
Orgasms, for her, had been what she faked with a man and provided herself when she was alone
~ Linda Howard
I'm not good at games, Robert. Don't kiss me unless it's for read. Don't come around unless you mean to stay. Do you mean marriage? he asked coolly, his expressive eyebrows lifting. ...if you're looking for a summer affair, I'm not your woman. His mouth twisted as an unreadable expression crossed his face. Oh, but you are. You just haven't admitted it to yourself yet.
~ Linda Howard
She had learned that if you kept asking the same question, you would often get different answers, and eventually the evasions would cease and the real answer would emerge.
~ Linda Howard
because that would be a lie. He was sorry they weren't spending the
~ Linda Lael Miller
den a lot of times myself," she confessed.
~ Linda Lael Miller
Frowning, Shiloh forced herself to look up at him. Roan deserved her courage, not her cowardice. "You wanted to kiss me." "I still do.
~ Lindsay McKenna
Let's get one thing clear between us, Shiloh. I would never laugh at you. I might tease the dickens out of you, but I would never, ever make fun of you. That's not who I am. I don't believe in humiliating another person. It's not in my DNA.
~ Lindsay McKenna
I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. And I'm not just saying that. I'm really not a very nice person. I can say 'I don't care' with a straight face, and really mean it.
~ Linus Torvalds
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
~ Linus Torvalds
Call the mania intellectual integrity, call it impertinence if you will. In any event that impertinence, that intellectual integrity, is one of my most conspicuous traits and one that differentiates me from the majority of my contemporaries.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
und die halbe Wahrheit, die vorgibt, die ganze zu sein, ist schlimmer als die schlimmste Lüge.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
You were created for truth. So no matter how frightening it may be at the time, we must always be truthful with ourselves.
~ Lisa Bevere
They have to get through each day, which makes truth a fickle companion.
~ Lisa Gardner
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
~ Ayn Rand
The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.
~ Noam Chomsky
I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
~ Russell Jacoby
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
~ Thomas Paine
We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.
~ Dwight L. Moody