Quotes about Honesty
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware of him that telleth tales.
- Anonymous
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.
- Mark Twain
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
- Samuel Johnson
We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is not spoken in anger.Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
- JM Coetzee
If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.
- Jack Kerouac
I wanted to go and get Rita again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this time, and calm her fears about men. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
- Jack Kerouac
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk-real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
- Jack Kerouac
I think anyone who's willing to be brutally honest with who they are and express themselves is always going to get the oddball label, the pyscho label, the twisted label. That's what happens.
- Keith Flint
I'm interested in two things. I'm interested in truth and I'm interested in fairness.
- John Kennedy