Honesty Quotes

"I don't know why they've been lying, but your sh*t is not that inspiring."

- Drake

"I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out."

- Drake

"There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content."

- Fred Rodell

"Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is."

- P!NK

"I decided at 15 that I didn’t want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don’t mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I’ve had, things I’ve been through, and even the stuff I’m embarrassed about."

- P!NK

"The only problems I’ve ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people."

- P!NK

"I’ve learned I’m not lying by not saying anything, so I just don’t say it anymore."

- P!NK

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

- William Shakespeare

"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."

- William Shakespeare

"One lesson of many lessons I learned from my father was to talk straight with people. It may surprise people to speak frankly, but ultimately it is a more efficient and honest way to communicate. People appreciate that."

- David Gasparyan

"I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. Besides, I like you not."

- William Shakespeare

"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous."

- Alfred Adler

"I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real."

- Jacques Lacan

"Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath, and hope we’ve set aside enough money to pay for our kids’ therapy."

- Michelle Pfeiffer

"Twelve years later the memories of those nights, of that sleep deprivation, still make me rock back and forth a little bit. You want to torture someone? Hand them an adorable baby they love who doesn’t sleep."

- Shonda Rhimes

"In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust are few."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"Ok, ok, Rapunzel, please. Stop with the mumbling. You know how I feel about the mumbling—blah, blah, blah, blah. It's very annoying."

- Mother Gothel

"I'm not a pig, Cassandra. I ate all of *your* cookies. I'm saving mine for later."

- Carms_Creates

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps ‘lie’ is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct—nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying."

- Mark Twain

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."

- Thomas Jefferson

"All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."

- Thomas Jefferson

"They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am."

- Stephen Colbert

"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help."

- Bill Watterson

"The iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The iron will always kick you the real deal."

"The barbell is an incredibly honest tool. It will always highlight your weaknesses."

"Speak the truth"

"You don’t hide things from the people you love."