Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Ryan Tedder

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

William Congreve

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

William Cowper

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is more arrogant than honesty?

Rodney Crowell

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Rodney Atkins

You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.

Roddy Doyle

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Roberto Bolano

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I eat everything. I'm just an eater. If it's free, I honestly eat everything.

Sarah Dessen

Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.

Roger Moore

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

Rod Stewart

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.

William Faulkner

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

William Faulkner

So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

Saint Francis de Sales

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

Will Rogers

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

Will Rogers

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

Will Rogers

Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

W. Eugene Smith

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist—a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself…

W. E. B. Du Bois

How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

Zachary Taylor

I shall pursue a straight forward course deviating neither to the right or left so that comes what may I hope my real friends will never have to blush for me, so far as truth, honesty & fair dealings are concerned.

Zac Efron

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

Zac Efron

Honesty is most important, and it's difficult when you're young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.

Ziggy Marley

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

Vladimir Putin

I think that the 21st-century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual aspect in the global economic development has grown immensely. That's why we plan to concentrate on creating additional opportunities for our people to realise their potential.

Vladimir Putin

Let us be frank: provoking military-political instability and other regional conflicts is also a convenient way of deflecting people's attention from mounting social and economic problems. Regrettably, further attempts of this kind cannot be ruled out.

William Greider

Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.

William Golding

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

Waylon Jennings

One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.

Walter Lippmann

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

Walter Lippmann

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.