232 Quotes Tagged: honesty

I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I’ve invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.

Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others – How did you get that bruise? – would oblige you to come to grips with this situation very quickly. Do you have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Lying is the lifeblood of addiction. If we have no recourse to lies, our lives can unravel only so far without others noticing.

Telling the truth can also reveal ways in which we want to grow but haven’t.

I do not make any pretense that I dislike compliments. The stronger the better and I can manage to digest them.

"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The truth brings no man a fortune

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

If you tell lies about your product you will be found out – either by the government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time.

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected. But the one lied to almost never shares this view. The moment we consider our dishonesty from the point of view of those we lie to, we recognize that we would feel betrayed if the roles were reversed.