Anita Brookner Quotes

I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Somewhere, sometime, somehow, some way these people will have to answer for their acts.

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Because of a few, disasters come upon a whole people, and because of the evil deeds of one, many have to taste their fruits.

Tell the truth and run.

If I do bad, shoot me.

My parents taught me the importance of telling the truth no matter what.

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.

If I do something wrong, make me pay for it.

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.