Spanish Proverb Quotes

Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

Some people say things they think you want to hear, and some people say the things they are actually thinking.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

You never monkey with the truth.

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

I am not honest.

I abhor hypocrisy.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

I don't lie very well!

Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.

I have little time for sincerity.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.