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Quotes About Honesty

I don't know, even now, if that was honesty or a guilt trip. Or maybe sometimes a thing can be both.
~ Elizabeth Bear
An interrogation was a relationship, and relationships were based on developing trust.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She knew where he was going, but she wasn't going to give him an inch that he didn't earn.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Michelangelo Osiris Leary Kusanagi-Jones, Liar, was going to have to tell someone the truth.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
~ Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Ever since that evening when you gave me my hat, I've been as true to you as I've got it in me to be. Don't force me to where untruth starts. You say nothing would make you hate me. But once make me hate myself and you'd make me hate you.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Honesty is nothing more than a party trick, and you know how much I love to dance.
~ Elizabeth Brooks
There was no disguise for real love, she thought, and suddenly understood all that she did not have.
~ Elizabeth Brundage
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It was the truth, but that made it no more palatable.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
Let your deeds be your bond, not your promises and cajolery.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
You believe in expressing all feelings at all times, though this has never been a successful practice for you insofar as your feeling-expression resulting in any real change.
~ Elizabeth Crane
I was grateful for the darkness that hid our faces at least, but nothing can hide the voice. It is always naked.
~ Elizabeth Cunningham
So I thought you would respond better to the lie than the truth," he
~ Elizabeth Dauphinee
forgiveness and responsibility are not the same thing. No one can absolve him of his responsibility. He will remain responsible for the rest of his life. And he knows it, or he would not have told you what he has done.
~ Elizabeth Dauphinee
Sometimes people have a lot to lose by telling stories in certain ways, so they work very hard to hide the things that don't fit with their views of themselves,
~ Elizabeth Dauphinee
Friendship can only survive on a sound basis of ignorance.
~ Elizabeth Ferrars
Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.
~ Elizabeth George