Honest Quotes

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.

Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!

Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don't see an abominable creature on it!

It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!

Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!

To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!

I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.

I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it?

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

The only thing I've ever regretted is not writing more; not being more honest; not saying how it really is in Baghdad. It's hard to get there sometimes.

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.

Let's be honest - look what Hollywood at 18 is.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.

My approach is to be honest-really honest-and consistent. That is what any growth will take. It is an issue I think [young] generation can be courageous enough to comb through.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action.

Light has a way of keeping people honest.

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.

Mutual commitment helps overcome the fear of failure—especially when people are part of a team sharing and achieving goals. It also sets the stage for open dialogue and honest conversation.

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.

When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.

To be honest, we're really nervous right now. It's our third album, so it's gotta be our best and biggest.

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.

I think that it is real important for someone to be really honest and open emotionally. I'm really an emotional person. If I'm that way and the guy isn't that way I just really feel like a jerk.

The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.

I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

There's not going to be a whole lot of change, to be honest with you. I don't think there's a reason to fix what's broke.