Quotes About Honesty

is the epitome of unfairness that many people would choose the comfortable lie over the uncomfortable truth and, in this case, would brand you as the archvillain instead of him.

It always was well nigh impossible to get any sense out of you, Jack, she said. Have you ever said anything to anyone that you really meant?

When people live in denial of the truth—sometimes large groups of them all together—they lose their . . . I am not sure of the right word. They lose something precious, something good and right and true. Their integrity, perhaps? You forced everyone to confront the truth—even those who did not know it before

everyone lies.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. —Ice Cube

Doc's idea of clarifyin' a point of contention came awful close to spitting in a man's eye.

Its not lying, it's remembering things the way they should have been.

I know this will sound glib, but don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel. That's how things slide into hell. Feelings are facts," she said, her voice a little hard, as she began to walk again. "Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If

don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel. That's how things slide into hell.

Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.

I'll take honest arrogance over fake humility any day.

Self-disclosure is almost like sex... It isn't easy to bare your soul

Maybe it's different in Georgia," Wyatt said. "Out here, pretty much anything in the newspaper is a cheat or a lie.

What does a man have to do to be taken at his word in this town? Do I have to shoot someone? Because I am making a list!

Mary Gaitskill

Very little," Ash said honestly. "I'd believe very little you told me." "Because I'm a traitor, in your eyes?" "No," she said. "Because you're a traitor in your eyes.

Get what you get honestly. Use what you get frugally. That's the way to live comfortably And die honorably.

In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it's done right.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he cannot distinguish the truth within him or around him, and so loses respect for himself. And having no respect, he ceases to love. Fyodor Dostoevsky

What would you write if you weren't afraid?

Real You is all you have, and all other paths are false. And in the best case, Real You is so happy to finally be recognized, it rewards you with Originality.

The first night he slept with her, he took a washrag and a jug of wood alcohol to get rid of her makeup, saying he wanted to know what he was getting into.

I've plumb forgot where I am for the instant, which is how a good lie should take you. At the same time, I'm more where I was inside myself than before Daddy started talking, which is how lies can tell you the truth.

our strange cynicism about truth as a possibility has permitted us to accept all manner of bullshit