587 quotes found
“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!”
“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”
“Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.”
“What a fool honesty is.”
“She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.”
“Full stories are as rare as honesty.”
“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?”
“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.”
“And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?"And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the t...”
“The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.”
“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 i...”
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
“There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.”
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”
“He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.”
“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 giv...”
“Honesty's the best policy.”
“If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.”
“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...”
