Be Honest Quotes

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

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

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

I've never been crazy. I'm a very good girl, to be honest. I don't do anything to hurt anybody.

I need advice and opinion-honest opinion. I want to get better. Why go around with blinkers on?

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.