Quotes About Honesty

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

If you stick to what the Bible teaches, then you have everything you need: honesty, openness, friendliness, respect, tolerance, and much more, which is often lost nowadays.

There should be no tolerance for cheaters, especially in fighting.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

Tolerance is important, especially in a democracy. The ability to have honest conversations, even if you come from a different place, a difference perspective, is fundamentally important.

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

I can tolerate anything but corruption and nepotism.

I have always been brazen. That's why I can't tolerate corruption.

I won't tolerate lying.

I cannot tolerate immorality.

Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

I really respect and admire Tolkien. I think he was the most honest of the Romantics.

If you love a man for his honesty, you cannot become angry when he shows it.

Such command and honesty! Your figures are full of emotion, for instance, here – points at the panel – the figure of Judas on his knees, wringing his hands in self-hatred and pleading for forgiveness… Who would have thought that someone your age, a miller at that, could put so much into a figure!

and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

I love you now. I'm with you now. I'll do my best, moment to moment, not to betray you. Now. That's it. No more. Don't make me lie to you.

I will love you with too many commas, but never any asterisks.

She'd been grateful to Rhea, for her honesty. Relieved by it, that someone as special and smart as Rhea'd had these same feelings. It's lonely, being a grown-up. It feels like walking through life in a mask.

They are preparing to go to war, and with so little time to waste, they say what they mean.

Some people wore their difference honestly, but my parents were liars, illegitimate Waitsfielders, their off-whiteness discovered only after the paint had dried. By the time I was born, the house had faded to the color of dirty snow.

He couldn't just come right out with it, could he? No, that would scare her off. He had to be subtle, build up to it. Explain himself. "I love you." Of course, straight to the point was also an effective strategy.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

As she became more honest with herself, her writing matured, so that one could catch glimpses of what would emerge from its chrysalis as a poet's genius.

Secrets, she discovered, were clutter. They filled the space inside you and gathered dust. They stopped you connecting fully with people.