Honesty Quotes

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

~ Jodi Picoult

Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.

~ Criss Jami

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

~ William Shakespeare

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

~ Marcus Aurelius

You cannot con an honest man.

~ Ally Carter

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

~ James Patterson

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.

~ Omega Maverick

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

~ Ann Brashares

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not fromthe truth. That’s what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.-Jace Wayland

~ Cassandra Clare

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.

~ Ralph Moody

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

~ Cassandra Clare

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

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

~ E.m. Forster

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

~ Sean Covey

What a fool honesty is.

~ William Shakespeare

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

~ Zadie Smith

You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible?

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

~ Criss Jami

You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!

~ Enid Blyton

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

~ Ally Condie

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

~ James Jones

It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

~ Lauren Dane

Guys will NEVER understand what it is like to be a girl and all the pain we have to deal with therefore they should shut up about things they don't understand. Likewise girls will NEVER know what it is like to be a guy and all the pressure they deal with, so shut up girls as well.

~ Megan Wilson

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

~ John Stuart Mill

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

~ M.j. Rose

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

~ Kelley Armstrong

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

~ Thomas Carlyle

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.

~ Laura Pritchett

I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.

~ Stephen King

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

~ Jessica Zafra

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.

~ Philip K. Dick

All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen.

~ Jessiqua Wittman

You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.” He glanced around the cell. “When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.

~ George R.r. Martin

You look like shit. Honesty is important in any relationship.

~ Gordon Andrews

People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.

~ Mark Haddon