Honesty Quotes - Page 10

When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a fraud, and a phony. That’s because we were. – p. 74

Ray A.

Some people come to Morganville and collapse,” Michael said as he put the car in motion. “I’ve seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just—bloom. You’re one of those.” Claire didn’t feel especially bloomy. “So you’re saying I thrive on chaos.

Rachel Caine

[Rayleen talking to Billy.] "Grace is thriving here, and I dare anybody to challenge that. Anybody who has a problem with that can come take it up with me.""Thank God," Billy said, "because I really hate it when people come take things up with ME.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

Patricia Highsmith

The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.

Mel Odom

Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.

Gregory David Roberts

Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

Margaret Atwood

Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.

James Poniewozik

I got over shy a really long time ago. I'm queer, I'm feline, get used to it.

Andrea Speed

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

Isaac Asimov

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

Jesse Ventura

I thought about keeping the money," Ove whispered at long last, and took his father's hand in a firmer grip, as if he was afraid of letting go."I know," said his father, and squeezed his hand a little harder."But I knew you would hand it in, and I knew a person like Tom wouldn't," said Ove.His father nodded. And not another word was said about it.Had Ove been the sort of man who contemplated how and when one became the sort of man one was, he might have said this was the day he learned that right has to be right. But he wasn't one to dwell on things like that. He contented himself with remembering that on this day he'd decided to be as little unlike his father as possible.

A Man Called Ove

You surely remember your past when you rebuke me in honesty.

Toba Beta

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

Ilsa J Bick

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always frank and open; and though he never tells any thing but the truth, he does not always think himself bound, when not properly called upon, to tell the whole truth. As he is cautious in his actions, so he is reserved in his speech; and never rashly or unnecessarily obtrudes his opinion concerning either things or persons.

Adam Smith

Just be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

Suzy Kassem

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Benjamin Franklin

A better man wouldn’t play this ‘sweethearts’ game with her when he knew very well it couldn’t lead to more.But he wasn’t a better man. He was Colin Sandhurst, reckless, incorrigible rogue—and damn it, he couldn’t resist. He wanted to amuse her, spoil her, feed her sweets and delicacies. Steal a kiss or two, when she wasn’t expecting it. He wanted to be a besotted young buck squiring his girl around the fair.In other words, he wanted to live honestly. Just for the day.

Tessa Dare

I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

Christopher Paolini

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Veronica Roth

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Albert Einstein

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

James Jones

It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

Lauren Dane

Guys will NEVER understand what it is like to be a girl and all the pain we have to deal with therefore they should shut up about things they don't understand. Likewise girls will NEVER know what it is like to be a guy and all the pressure they deal with, so shut up girls as well.

Megan Wilson

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

John Stuart Mill

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

M.J. Rose

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Kelley Armstrong

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

François de La Rochefoucauld

I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.

Laura Pritchett

I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.

Stephen King

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

Chuck Palahniuk

Honesty's the best policy.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

Jessica Zafra

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.

Philip K Dick

All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen.

Jessiqua Wittman

You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.” He glanced around the cell. “When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.

George R.R. Martin

You look like shit." Honesty is important in any relationship.

Gordon Andrews

People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.

Mark Haddon

You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

Taylor Mali

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.

Omega Maverick

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

Ann Brashares

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not fromthe truth. That’s what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.-Jace Wayland

Cassandra Clare

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.

Ralph Moody

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

Cassandra Clare

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

Daniel Radcliffe

If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty.If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty!

John Boyd

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

E.M. Forster

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

Sean Covey

What a fool honesty is.

William Shakespeare

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Azar Nafisi

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

Zadie Smith

You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible?

Jennifer Donnelly

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Criss Jami

You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!

Enid Blyton

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