Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliana Hatfield

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

Josh Billings

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

Kathryn Stockett

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

Paul D. Boyer

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Hayley Williams

Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

John Lyly

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

David Morrissey

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

Cass Elliot

Honesty is all you need.

Charles Baudelaire

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Charlie Munger

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

Charles Mackay

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

Bill Maher

I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will always get lots of people thinking you're a jerk. But there are people who appreciate total honesty and questioning of the conformities in our society, and I'm heroic to those people. And I should be. It's an indictment of the rest of society who doesn't get that.

When I was in politics I had no problem making decisions, ... In fact, I was overly vocal many times and never hesitated to let people know where I stood, because I think that?s part of being honest in politics.

Benjamin Franklin

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

Charles Lindbergh

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.

William Shakespeare

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

William Shakespeare

What a fool honesty is.

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

Tracy McMillan

I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

Adam Levine

To be totally honest with you, I actually didn't meet them. Technically it wasn't so much of a collaboration because the song was written.

My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I say.

Ricky Jay

I do think deception... There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it's a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you're not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that's a kind of serious moral issue.