Quotes About Honesty

Most of us hide away when we are sad, Rose thought. But performers were sad in public. She liked how honest they all were. They opened up their hearts They took out every emotion-no matter how small or pathetic or odd-and celebrated it.

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light

Frauen stünde gelehrt sein nicht? Die Wahrheit zu sagen, nützlich ist es: Es steht Männern so wenig wie Fraun.

It's all chop-change chop-change with you. Either go out with me and treat me nicely, or leave me alone. As I say, I am not interested in fuckwittage.

On ne risque jamais de faire fausse route en disant la vérité.

Por qué, cuando las personas dejan a sus parejas porque están teniendo un lío con otra persona, creen mejor hacer ver que no hay nadie más involucrado? ... Es lo mismo que esas personas que inventan una mentira como excusa en lugar de decir la verdad, aunque la verdad sea mejor que la mentira.

There are words in my life that I wish I'd never said. I wish I'd never told my wife that I loved her, because then I had to line up all my actions with those words. I had to always act like that was true. And those three words, I love you, should never be used if you don't mean them. My lying has meant I will never get to use them on anyone else. I went against my own truth, my own heart, and there is really no coming back from that.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

I've been writing a lot of sad songs, and I got to the point where I was like, 'You can't write another one or you're lying.'

The core of my writing is not art but truth.

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.

My life is very simple, it is not worth being written into a biography, for that 'masala' is required.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Lauryn Hill quietly released 'Lose Myself' as part of the 'Surf's Up' motion picture soundtrack - shocking, I know. It's not only one of the best summer tracks you'll add to your catalogue: it's also one of the most honest and heartfelt songs she's has ever written.

I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.

My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.

I don't think I've done anything quite like 'Gypsy' before. Especially the honest way that it is written.

A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.