Honest Quotes

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

I'd rather be honest and lose than be dishonest and win

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Don't kid yourself. Be honest with yourself. Take your own inventory.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.

I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.

To get hwat you want out of life, all you really need to do is be honest about it, don't be afraid to go for it, and have fun while you do it -- and you'll eventually get it.

I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.

Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

If you are honest, you will live life safely. But if you are dishonest, you will get hurt.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.

You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.

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.

I'm honest with myself how I feel. If I feel good, I feel good. If I don't - if I'm tight - I don't just try to muscle through everything, because you've got to be a little bit smarter.