Top 100 Lies Honesty Quotes
#2. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
#3. When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
Elana Dykewomon
#4. Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.
Denis Johnston
#5. The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.
-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn
#6. People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Richard J. Needham
#7. The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.
David Levithan
#11. Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?
George Orwell
#12. No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.
Andrew Klavan
#15. They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).
Giacomo Casanova
#16. You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.
Rebecca Scherm
#18. Honey, she says, honest ain't the half of what I'm not.
Alden Bell
#19. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
#20. I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
Charles De Lint
#21. Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. Decency is when you put yourself before the needs of others, dignity lies in loyalty and humbleness; honor means honesty and openness, possess those and you will be most beautiful.
Bahman Solati
#23. Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive.
Walter Scott
#24. Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.
Marissa Meyer
#25. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
Neil Gaiman
#26. Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?
Edward W. Robertson
#27. Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.
Amit Kalantri
#29. If you don't find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don't want to ruin the evening.
Shannon L. Alder
#30. It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
Chuck Palahniuk
#31. I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.
Robert Walser
#32. Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.
Wes Fesler
#33. Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Austin O'Malley
#34. The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
Criss Jami
#35. See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#36. The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Gail Caldwell
#37. Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
David Whyte
#38. I am. I'm rude because I don't conform to society's standards that white lies are inconsequential. I don't believe in hiding behind words that aren't truthful. I'm an impatient man. I don't beat around the bush. If you ask me something, I won't lie to you.
Whitney Barbetti
#39. Don't spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.
T.F. Hodge
#40. Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.
Joyce Rachelle
#41. I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.
Maya Angelou
#42. Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
A.W. Tozer
#43. Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree.
Stefan Emunds
#44. In time, lies bring turmoil, where honesty brings peace.
Wes Fesler
#45. The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything - except the truth.
Rick Riordan
#46. If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. A liar only uses the truth when they want their lies to sound truthful.
Al David
#48. I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear.
Charles F. Glassman
#49. To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Dorothy L. Sayers
#50. He's hidden behind lies and half-truths his entire life, so anytime he's faced with brutal honesty, he runs. It's just his nature.
Brandi Glanville
#51. I am an honest man by nature, but as I live in society I try not to arouse anyone's resentment and sometimes I am compelled to lie in this endeavour. As soon as honesty becomes compatible with daily social life, I will stop telling such lies.
Soseki Natsume
#52. The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
#53. The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.
Kenneth Logan
#55. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#57. In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.
Megan Chance
#58. The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
George Eliot
#59. Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'
The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.
Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'
Didn't you mean them?'
At the moment.
W. Somerset Maugham
#60. Truth is like a bright full moon in a dark country sky. Powerful, bright and undeniable. Lies are like clouds that continually try to cover that moon. Sometimes they might be able to cover the moon, but only temporarily. The truth will always outshine the clouds.
Alex Haditaghi
#61. Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners ...
Meredith Duran
#62. I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.
Rohit Shetty
#63. The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.
Albert E. Bowen
#65. Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.
Wes Fesler
#66. Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
William Shakespeare
#67. What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
Muriel Rukeyser
#69. A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.
Fred Munoz
#70. The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.
Criss Jami
#71. With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends
Kathryn Stockett
#72. Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.
J.G. Ballard
#73. Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
Marisha Pessl
#74. Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
Terry Goodkind
#75. All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
Wally Lamb
#76. Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#77. always tell the truth and you'll never have to remember your words.
Kiki Archer
#78. You can know someone in a moment of Honesty than ever you can in a lifetime of Lies..
Javan
#79. Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty. My
Maya Angelou
#82. Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.
Stefan Zweig
#83. Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.
Siri Hustvedt
#85. Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.
Brad Blanton
#87. Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
Martha Beck
#88. Don't ever be honest about who you are - and I mean that as a life rule, not just in this instance.
Andrea Cremer
#89. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#90. Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#91. In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
Criss Jami
#93. A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.
Criss Jami
#95. That's the purity of nature. It may be harsh in its honesty, but it never lies to you.
Carine McCandless
#96. But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life?
Diana Rose Morcilla
#97. In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor ... Being true is different than being honest.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#98. You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies
Fred Munoz
#99. Always there is a bitch lies in every virgin heart, and a virgin always lies in the heart of a bitch. To be honest, there cannot ever be anyone who is one-man or one-woman human, in action or may be in thought!
Argha
#100. Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.
Criss Jami
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