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Quotes About Honesty

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
~ Sir Thomas More
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
~ Sir Walter Besant
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.
~ Sir Walter Ralegh
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
~ Sir Walter Raleigh
O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
~ Sir Walter Scott
Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.
~ Sir Walter Scott
But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.
~ Siri Hustvedt
There is always a gap between what we feel and what we say.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Live authentically. Live your truth. And if you love me for anything, love me because I live mine.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.
~ Sarah Dessen
If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
~ Lord Byron
The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.
~ Richard Yates
Better to discuss everything out in the open while you're in love, then if or when the relationship sadly ends. It's called Full Disclosure Before The Fact.
~ Gene Simmons
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
~ George Sand
Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't.
~ Josh Radnor
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
~ Lana Del Rey
It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey, Genevieve
When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.
~ Abbi Glines
One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
~ Hermann Hesse
He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
~ John Ortberg
I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.
~ Lauren Oliver
They love indeed who quake to say they love.
~ Philip Sidney