Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Beck

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

Myles Munroe

The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship; for a female, communication and conversation. The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness. The fourth basic need of a male is domestic support; for a female, financial support. The fifth basic need of a male is admiration and respect; for a woman, family commitment.

Moliere

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Nathan Fillion

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

Mark Twain

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

Mark Twain

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Mark Twain

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Mark Twain

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Mark Twain

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Mark Twain

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Mark Twain

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

Mark Twain

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Mario Vazquez

In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.

Nikki Sixx

Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.

Marvin J. Ashton

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Marvin J. Ashton

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

Mark Twain

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Mikhail Bakunin

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

Mark Hopkins

Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.

R. D. Laing

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

B. C. Forbes

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Antonio Banderas

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Mira Nair

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

Pema Chodron

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see.

Katy Perry

Honesty has always worked for me.

Lady Gaga

I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

Lewis Carroll

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

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.

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.