Quotes About Honesty

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

Pobrecita niña. ¿Tu padre te mintió cuando eras un retoño de bruja? ¿Te aseguró que tenías un buen corazón y que, si querías cuando crecieras podrías llegar a ser tan buena, estúpida y aburrida como él.

Rollan didn't admit the other reason.

Still, I am ashamed that I was ashamed. Marda, I hope you are not ashamed of me for being ashamed. If so, shame on you.

He used] as English accent, for no apparent reason except that it's perhaps easier to say what's most true when you can pretend you're someone else.

Cross my heart and get no pie.

That's the important stuff. I could write it on a sticky note, if you want, along with my favorite sexual position. Which isn't missionary, by the way." It was right there on the tip of her tongue—then what is your favorite sexual position?—but she bit it back.

I have heard from Pramod that you do not hanker after fame. The truth is all you seek. Ha, ha!

We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can be twisted. Bend a little here, omit a little there, make yourself into the person you wish you were instead of the person you are. How easy to cut the truth away, to throw it in a fire, open your eyes, and have the whole world remember nothing of who you are. Nothing of what you've done. When you will not remember who you are or what you've done.

Truth can look so flimsy and feeble sometimes. It's one of the things I hold against it.

The Bible has a lot to say about our mouths, our lips, our tongues, for our speech betrays us. What is down in the well will come up in the bucket. –VANCE HAVNER

going, but that was OK. Good, honest hard work: burying the dead. Took an hour to dig a hole

Richard, might I ask you something? We've talked tonight of what you must do, of what you can do, of what you ought to do.But we've said nothing of what you want to do.Richard, do you want to be King?" At first, she thought he wasn't going to answer her. But as she studied his face, she saw he was turning her question over in his mind, seeking to answer it as honestly as he could. "Yes," he said at last. "Yes...I do.

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

You erred in hiding yourself from yourself," Lute said sternly. "That is never wise. Misdirecting an enemy is merely self-defense.

Never be afraid to be honest and stand up for what is right, Stella," he said pointedly. "Just remember to balance your courage with wisdom.

But what if I say something and you don't like it?' 'Well, that happens between people all the time. And sometimes it turns them awkward with each other, and sometimes it makes them angry, but unless they tell the truth it's all just guessing and mistakes anyway.

Every political party needs the righteous anger of the loyal opposition to keep it honest

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.

It is easier to see who is real and truthful and who is pretending for nefarious reasons. While it can feel lonely to realize this piece of life, it is important to spend this alone time, to find a deeper place within oneself.

Sometimes I say things I shouldn't. I guess I'm too outspoken.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.