Quotes about Honesty

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.

Now Franny understood that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.

From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn't want to lie anymore. One more lie and she'll be truly lost. One more and she'll never find her way back through the woods.

Shelby is brutally honest. That's why Maravelle likes her. Maravelle is brutally honest too. You can't have many friends if you act that way, but you can depend on the ones you have.

Many of them began to wonder why they themselves often feigned opinions rather than speak their minds, no matter how clever they were, for fear they'd be thought of as difficult.

if a person doesn't speak her mind she will carry her resentment until it burns her

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

You can always tell a liar, for he will not look at you when he speaks, and often he has white spots on his fingernails, one to mark every lie he's told.

that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold.

She was a literal speaker. What she expressed she both felt and was.

In Washington, D. C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth.