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Quotes About Honesty

Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, 'I love you', locked in our hearts.
~ Paulo Coelho
I love you. I honestly love you.
~ Olivia Newton-John
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
~ Sophocles
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
~ John Steinbeck
I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me
~ Jon Bon Jovi
I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!
~ Arca
Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?
~ Benjamin Franklin
Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.
~ Christopher Paolini
I've got to be honest, and I'm not just saying this because the majority of you reading this live there, but I love the United Kingdom. I just flat-out love it.
~ Corey Taylor
Cheating love is just as real as un-cheating love.
~ Dolly Parton
I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!
~ Lisa Marie Presley
An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.
~ Robert Breault
I really think it's important for people to let each other know exactly how they feel when it comes to love!
~ Sydney Sierota
I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.
~ Taylor Swift
In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
~ Tom Ford
Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
~ Walker Percy
True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.
~ Gelett Burgess
To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.
~ Gene Kim
I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.
~ Geri Halliwell
But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.
~ Rumi
I'm tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. About the person I love.
~ Sheryl Swoopes