Honest Quotes

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

Be honest about who you are and what your bringing to the table and what your expectations are.

I gotta be honest with you...I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]

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

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.

My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.

I like the girls who are honest, because honesty is important.

I didn't know what the path was that I wanted to be as an actor, to be honest. I've been doing a lot of theater since I was a kid, so I was just sort of taking opportunities.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.

Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.

If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.