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Honesty Quotes


"Party honesty is party expediency."


"Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something.""Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?"I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"..."Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar."


"Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare."


"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."


"There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them."


"I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty."


"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest."


"Own your truths-all of them. Be honest. Be genuine. Be straightforward. Be refreshing!"


"It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it."


"Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!"


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


"Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken."


"Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble."


"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."


"Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars."


"Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men."


"It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible."


"When you speak, be sure of what you are speaking. Don't be rambling full of words that have no integrity or truth. Nobody wants to confide in you when they doubt what you say. If you are filled with untruths, those characteristics make it hard for anyone to believe in you."


"Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true."


"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."


"Unfortunately in today's world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man."


"I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods."


"Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends."
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