587 quotes found
“The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.”
“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.”
“Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.”
“You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself.”
“... tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.”
“So I still like to see you, my friend. I still like to sit in La Côte Basque and sip wine and eat fine food and indulge in our memories—the good ones, the ones we want to remember. So let’s do that...”
“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
“The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.”
“She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.”
“Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.”
“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. O...”
“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!”
“Full stories are as rare as honesty.”
“This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.”
“The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.”
“He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.”
“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 ...”
“I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.”
