Honesty Quote by Mia Sheridan

“Why does every deliberately cruel person describe themselves as the perfect example of necessary bluntness?”

— Mia Sheridan

“Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.”

— Colette McBeth

“Seems to me there are a million examples of how nice or how cruel people act every moment of every day.”

— Terry Trueman

“Kindness is cruel if it compromises the truth.”

— Jacob Lieberman

“The world is a cruel place sometimes, and warm-hearted people do most of the good in it. And much of the time, they're mocked…

— Philip Pullman

“Kindnesses win over harsh judgments EVERY time!”

— Trish Parr

“Unlooked-for kindness can cut deep as cruelties if they come at the wrong time.”

— Lyndsay Faye

“If I were you, I would never tell ugly stories about ingenious ways of killing people, for you never can tell but that someone…

— F. Marion Crawford

“Few things wound more cruelly than unkind words spoken unkindly.”

— Val Edward Simone

“It is, after all, a simple and tragic thing that on occasion our unkindness to others is actually a desperate effort to be kind…

— Tahereh Mafi

“I’m going to address you bluntly, but it’s a directness that rises from my compassion for you, not my judgment of you.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of.”

— Jo Ann Beard