Jeanette Winterson Quotes

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

Love and honesty don't mix.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

True liars never love. True lovers never lie.

No lies, just love.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

Ya know, I just want a girl to be honest.

If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.

I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you." Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing. Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh.

You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward." He smiled. "I don't lie to you." "Really," I said. The smile became a grin. "Okay, not most of the time, anymore." His face sobered. "I'm not lying now.

Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

It can't be 'true' love without the truth

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.