Pamela Meyer Quotes

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Honest doesn't necessarily mean unfiltered.

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

I am very moohphat and can never be diplomatic or politically correct.

I am definitely not as polite as Beatrice, I have to say. I tell it as it is. I am shyer at first.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

The world prefers decorum to honesty.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.

Australian women tend to tell it like it is - even if it's the brutal, honest truth. I think American women usually break it to you a little easier. There's a softer side to them.