People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Honest Quotes
It’s better to be quotable than to be honest.
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
There are no such things as honest people, there are only people less crooked.
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
There are numerous layers of honesty, and the deepest should not have a monopoly.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. it is not.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest.
There is no such thing at this date of the world’s history in America as an independent press. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write his honest opinion, and if you did, you know beforehand it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly […]
