Honesty
Quotes - Good things only happen to you if you're good
“Honest
people don't hide their deeds.”
―
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Better
to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
―
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“If
we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
―
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A
great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging
their prejudices.”
―
William James
“if
you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned
out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
―
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
“V-Day…if
you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your
loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all
artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
―
Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“What
have I always believed?
That
on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what
any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then
it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
“The
answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more
what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a
whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”
―
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
“Integrity
is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
―
Spencer Johnson
“Madame,
all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story
teller who would keep that from you.”
―
Hemingway, Ernest
“Last
night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t
think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s
anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their
genitals.”
―
Jess C Scott, Tongue-Tied
“If
you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain
their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some
of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you
can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois,
September 8, 1854.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“Honesty
is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
―
Warren Buffett
“You
should not honor men more than truth.”
―
Plato
“The
single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you
by telling you what you've just told them.”
―
Rachel Maddow
“NO
reader has ANY obligation to an author, whether it be to leave a review or to
write a "constructive" one. I put out a product. You are consumers of
that product. Since when does that mean you have to kiss my ass? Hey, I like
Pop-Tarts and eat them a few times a year; since when does that mean I'm
obligated to support Kellogg's in any way except legally purchasing the
Pop-Tarts before I eat them? I wasn't aware that purchasing and consuming a
product meant I was under some sort of fucking thrall in which I'm only allowed
to either praise the Pop-Tart (which to be honest isn't hard, especially the
S'mores flavor) or, if I am going to criticize a flavor, offer a specific and
detailed analysis as to why, phrased in as inoffensive and gentle a manner as
possible so as not to upset the gentle people at Kellogg's."
[Something
in the Water? (blog post; January 9, 2012)]”
―
Stacia Kane
