Quotes About Honesty

Of course, I mean it. I don't talk for the pleasure of hearing my own voice, unlike some cats. - Yellowfang

Do you really mean it?" she whispered. "Of course I mean it," Yellowfang growled. "I don't talk for the pleasure of hearing my own voice, unlike some cats.

If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

No more twist!

Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.

Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it, else the hand would cut itself which sought to drive it home upon another. The worst lies, therefore, are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words--that is friendship. But few have such friends. Our enemies usually teach us what we are, at the point of the sword.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.

Each country has its own manner of telephoning. The Russians, at least, are honest. They say, "It is Ivan Ivanovich who is bothering you." The

That was what marriage was: the ultimate knowledge of each other, with no need to preen or to pretend. Even its irritations came from closeness.

A saccharine, easy grace is no grace at all.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

If you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

I promised myself that we'd have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.

Love meant laying every single thing out on the line and trusting that the other person would lay everything out, too. Without fear. And without regret. "How

Marriage isn't a disease; it isn't catching. You don't have to pass it on to everybody you know. Unlike a woman I once heard admit "I've never been married but I tell people I'm divorced so they are not scared of me

There are those who believe that clumsiness and truthfulness go together. But cumbersomeness does not necessarily imply a sincere heart.

Things that you write are in some degree autobiographical, but the first thing you find out about autobiography is that it's the hardest thing in the world to write. It's hard because it's very difficult to be absolutely factual about yourself. So ... when you write, you may draw on facts from your own life, but if their not in harmony with your story, they're worse than useless. You just stumble over them.

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.