http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/louis-ck-proust-questionnaire
“A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.”
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Ballad of Hollis Brown
“What motivates you, then? Please don’t tell me altruism. I am not quite so gullible as that.”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 2, “Covenant: Derringer and Dascra” (p. 41)
“Always tell the truth, even if it should make him jump out of his shoe.”
Source: All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 4. Viceroys without colonial aspirations? Jules Van Praet (1806-1887) http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#2.%20 He certainly did not play his role of chief of staff to the king as that of a submissive slave: this is apparent from a preserved quote from him in Bruges in which he was determined to be his king. VIAENE, V. “Leopold I, Belgian Diplomacy and the Culture of the European Concert, 1831-1865”, 130. Van Praet then rebelled against the fact that Leopold I had already had several mistresses there, which according to the private secretary was detrimental to the popularity of the monarchy.
Concepts
“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him please to give up painting.”
spoken to Claude Monet about Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1874), as quoted by John Rewald, The History of Impressionism, Vol.1 (1961).
1850 - 1875
“Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.”
Source: Harriet the Spy
