#honesty

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#emotion #friendship #honesty #imagination #individuality

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#be-yourself #honesty #inspirational #unsourced #unverifiable

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said. ↗

— Clare B. Dunkle

#insightfulness #intelligence #politeness #beauty

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ↗

— Noel Coward

#discouraging #few #honesty #how #many

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#feel #freedom #gives #honesty #i

Honesty is the best policy. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#best #honesty #honesty is #policy #the best policy

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty. ↗

— Lance Loud

#chief #claiming #coming #distinct #honesty

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#appetite #better #blood #brutish #depths

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#find #honesty #humor #i #irresistible

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#countries #does #expect #expected #free