Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Alan Moore

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Chambers

It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

Akira Kurosawa

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

Chris Colfer

I’m not really afraid to be my awkward self, and I know there’s lots and lots of other people just like me out there that are awkward themselves. And I think they just appreciate that I’m not afraid to say the weird things that I say and tweet the obnoxious things that I tweet. But I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best. I think you just be honest. I think people respond to honesty.

Chogyam Trungpa

Facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. Good or bad the idea is simply to face the facts. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself without cutting yourself down.

David Ricardo

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

David Hume

Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.

David Brooks

I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

Audrey Hepburn

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Audre Lorde

There are no honest poems about dead women.

Audre Lorde

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Arthur Ransome

For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

Arthur Peacocke

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Diablo Cody

Juno: Honest to blog?

Denzel Washington

I've always felt protected. That's the God's honest truth.

William Shakespeare

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

William Shakespeare

What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.

William Shakespeare

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

William Shakespeare

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

Bill Nighy

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

Bill O'Reilly

It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.

Bill O'Reilly

America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

Bill Moyers

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

Bertrand Russell

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Bernard de Mandeville

One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.

Cass Elliot

Honesty is all you need.

Carlos Mencia

In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.

Alan K. Simpson

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Charles de Lint

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.