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Quotes About Honesty

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.
~ Willa Ford
EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.
~ Ellen Malcolm
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
~ Penelope Cruz
You have to know how to co-operate with other people if you want to stay alive and raise children. And to do that, you need to know something about them. You need to know who loves whom, who hates whom, who is sleeping with whom. Who is honest, who is a cheat.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
~ Julia Ward Howe
As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.
~ Mariella Frostrup
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
~ Piers Anthony
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
~ Juan Williams
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.
~ Lana Del Rey
I am who I am. That's why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don't change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I'm myself 24/7. People appreciate that.
~ Kevin Hart
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
~ Eric Carr
It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
~ Michael Jackson
No-one posts photos of themselves on Instagram when you're eating spaghetti hoops out of a tin going 'Why?'
~ Aisling Bea
I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.
~ Boris Johnson
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I feel like boys listen to my music. They just don't like to admit it, but I go hard. But yeah, I feel like I go really hard, so why not listen to me? Anybody could relate to my music, honestly.
~ Megan Thee Stallion
I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.
~ Neel Mukherjee
It upsets me that people think what I'm doing is a bad thing. I don't think it's a bad thing. If you know something to be a fact, why not report it?... If I have to drag some people screaming out of the closet, then I will.
~ Perez Hilton
And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.
~ Buck Owens
God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
~ Philip Yancey
Let me get something straight: I have no problem with ghostwriting as a thing unto itself. What bothers me is the way it's shrouded in secrecy, ignored to the point of straight-up lying. Why not be honest?
~ Rebecca Serle
The thing is you can never sugarcoat anything, If you're going to tell a story, tell the truth. If you're going to tell something, why not tell it all?
~ Rich Swann
People will know if you are telling the truth or lying. If you are doing commentary, why not tell the truth?
~ Phil Taylor