#honesty

There is no love without respect. There isn't much truth if spoken without genuine honesty. ↗

— Alexandra Elle

#love #respect #love

[On marriage and permanent attachment:] Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#cleverness #deception #honesty #marriage #men

I'm not going to force you into anything you don't want. But I'm also not going to take a vow of chastity and pine away for you, or whatever the hell it is that men do in romance novels these days. I have needs. I'd rather satisfy them with you, but if you don't want me I suppose I'll just have to find someone else. Might take me a while, but I'll make do. I always have before. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#love #relationships #romance #sex #love

Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#honesty #humanity-and-society #theives #men

I mean, you want the truth as you wanna hear it? I can't do that. You couldn't afford me. ↗

— Keith Moon

#keith-moon #music #rock #the-who #truth

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#music #music

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. ↗

— Criss Jami

#honesty #human-nature #lying #man #penalize

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#nature

Sincerity is the fulfillment of our own nature, and to arrive at it we need only follow our own true Self. Sincerity is the beginning and end of existence; without it, nothing can endure. Therefore the mature person values sincerity above all things. ↗

— Tzu-ssu

#honesty #sincerity #nature