Quotes About Honesty

After loving someone you couldn't depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say.

She just looked at me, and I wondered what on earth it was about her that made me be so honest. Like she was sick with truth, and really contagious.

Why would I tell you anything but the truth? -Ethan For safety's sake we learn to be less honest at the beginnings of things, not more. But Ethan was different. With him and me, it was always about the truth. Why would I tell you anything but? It was the closest thing to I love you a boy had ever said to me. Maybe it meant even more.

But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits. And honest, to her or to myself, never.

If only I'd been able to just tell him everything else, as well. But you can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can, under the circumstances.

I don't want to go back into that dressing room and take off my boots and my pants and start putting on jeans only to discover that the ones you brought me are all too tight, and then when I ask for the next size up, be informed that they're the biggest size you carry. I can't take that today. Seriously, I'll blow my head off. So look at me, look at my ass, look at my gut, take it all in, and then tell me honestly if you anticipate we're going to have a problem.

When I hear what I have written out loud, the cliches hang in the air between us like bad breath

Not everything needs to be a powerful statement about character or society or whatever. Sometimes, things are the way they are and nothing more.

Everyone says that love requires the utmost honesty, but that's not entirely true. Once I knew that my father was suffering for my sake—really suffering—I learned that love, especially the parental kind, requires the heartwarming sacrifice that can only accompany fake enthusiasm.

Sometimes people lie because the truth is too hard to admit.

The thing about a country famous for its bribery is that the people who don't take bribes are very keen you know that about them.

Be truthful, gentle and fearless.

The devotee does not cry out God's name while continuing to defy His laws. An honest devotee is not such a hypocrite or blasphemer of God's mercy.

Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.

A man may say, From now on I'm going to speak the truth. But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

Therefore we didn't talk of genuine things.

Sometimes I wonder," I said, "if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn't make sure first that they can defend themselves.

I am sure you were sincere. Not insincere. True insincerity is hard to find.

Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.

Was she not so simple and free of ulterior motives as she looked? Well, neither was I.

It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think — to say it in your own words, without compromise.

Thoughts should be real. Words should have a definite meanings and a man should believe what he said.

So many questions impossible to answer could not be asked about an honest man. Nor perhaps about a sane man.

Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.