Famous Quotes & Sayings

James A. Baldwin

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Jaden Smith

As soon as me and Willow started releasing music, that’s one thing that the whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty. If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more honest,

Jacqueline McKenzie

To be honest, I never really had watched much sci-fi.

Jackie Mason

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Jackson Browne

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

George Harrison

No truth could ever fear me.

Hillary Clinton

Honest work deserves honest pay.

Herbert Hoover

While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Ernest Hemingway

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

Ernest Hemingway

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Ernest Hemingway

A cat has absolute honesty.

Ernest Hemingway

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Erykah Badu

Honey isn't really that good for you.

Federica Montseny

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

Fats Domino

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

Ezra Miller

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

Ezra Taft Benson

Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

Euripides

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Francis Bacon

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Ford Frick

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Fran Lebowitz

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

George Washington

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

George Washington

Honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

George Washington

Have the strength to be an honest person.

George Washington

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

George Orwell

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Christian Bale

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.