Quotes About Honesty

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. —Anne Lamott

Those noble men who falsehood dread In wealth and glory ever grow, As flames with greater brightness glow With oil in ceaseless flow when fed.

Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just

I want to say something but shame prevents me yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say, shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

The thrill of telling her true feelings without considering good manners or the propriety of what she had to say was intoxicating.

I'm sure there are many women who would prefer not to have children, but few of them are honest with themselves about that.

Happy unions cannot take root under such a cloud of deception and artifice.

Most people wouldn't know the truth if it bit them in the ass and paid for the privilege.

Sometimes doing things was easier than talking about things. Doing revealed less; talking exposed more, including the parts that could get hurt.

We can take it. Not everyone can. But I'd rather have the truth, ugly as it is, over every beautiful lie in the world. Because I seen too many times where the lies end up. Here. There.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

i meant what i said, and i said what i meant.

He yearned for this calm serenity, for smiles without cynicism, for honesty without subterfuge, meeting Mary on that country lane was some things the angels had planned, he had no intentions of letting her go.

He was still lying to her, it was a compulsion he couldn't escape from but there was no other way.

And why didn't anyone count those things? "People should tell the truth about what war costs," Vola had said. Weren't those things the costs of war, too?

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

the only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all...

Sometimes you have to admit that a relationship can't be fixed. That no matter how much you want to, you can't trust some people.

But you can't make someone be something they're not.

Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have them in the open

It's like when someone says, 'How are you?' do you say, 'Well, mt head hurts and I'm lonely and depressed and I'm worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil? Or do you say, I'm fine?