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Honesty Quotes


"We're gonna lie when the truth is hard? That's how this relationship is going to work? All righty, then."


"I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"


"I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit."


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


"A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty."


"I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable."


"I'd had a really bad day and you hurt me.His hand at my jaw tensed and he kept whispering when he said, 'I'll probably do it again, Red,because I'm a man and any man can be a dick. But I won't do it like that, not again. I know you got softunder that attitude and I'll have a mind to that."


"Why should i have fake smile on my face ,If my heart and soul suffering in unrest. it's not my duty to entertain you But its my responsibility to be Honest and Original."


"Falling in love maybe destiny but be in love its depend on your Honesty."


"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."


"Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted."


"You should feel free to feel how you want and don't think of what people think."


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


"It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not."


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


"Write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway."


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


"I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything."


"When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes."


"I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation."


"While stabbing someones back, you recklessly expose your own."


"Don't change your mind just because people are offended, change your mind if you're wrong."


"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."


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



"I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive."


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


"A kind 'no' from the heart is better than a deceitful 'yes' from the tongue."
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