Sissela Bok Quotes

I don't really like the term 'honest.'

I don't do interviews under false pretenses.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

I cannot deceive my people.

I'm the voice of honesty.

I'm nothing if not honest.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

I feel honesty always works.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

I'm always going for truth and honesty.

Honesty is all you need.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

Not knowing the answer is better than consciously misleading.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while

I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.

If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.

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

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

The thread that ties together everything I love is honesty in the intention.

My approach is to be open and honest.