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It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
Cassandra Clare
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Friedrich von Schiller
Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Henry Fielding
Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
Richard D. Rosen
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott, Marmion
I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.
Tim Robbins
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
Anita Brookner
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann von Goethe
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Sir Walter Besant
Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum
There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
A. P. Gouthey
When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.
Ken Keyes Jr.
