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Honesty Quotes - Page 4

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.163, Sophia Institute Press

I am looking for an honest man.

Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Robert Burns, James Currie, Robert Hartley Cromek (1839). “The prose works of Robert Burns: with the notes of Currie and Cromek, and many by the present editor”, p.57

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.117, Reprint Services Corporation