Quotes About Honesty

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Between midnight and four, everyone should have permission to speak freely.

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.

We're only as sick as our secrets.

I don't think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them.

I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

Oh, about beer I never lie, Crandall said. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

The most important things are the hardest things to say

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head, they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-the-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered anyway.

when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.

Your bullshit quotient is higher than my husband

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, working for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed, and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning.

When your lover begins to talk about "offending" you, he's not your lover anymore.

Sometimes things that are crippling to hear may be true or they wouldn't be so crippling.

Love cannot be FAKED, It will eventually Reveal itself in Action

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Authenticity is the seed of your identity and you can't go wrong with it in life.