Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Sullivan

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

Andrew Sullivan

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

Ambrose Bierce

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

Anna Torv

To be really honest, I don't love the gym.

Ani Difranco

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

Ani Difranco

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.

Ally Carter

You cannot con an honest man.

Allen Covert

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.

Alison Krauss

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

Ann Brashares

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

Alyson Stoner

Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

Aesop

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

George Crabbe

What is a church? - Our honest sexton tells, / 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Norm Coleman

We take very seriously the importance of testifying honestly before this committee,

Edward Kennedy

Today is an ominous day for the country, signifying a new low since Watergate in terms of openness and honesty in our government,

Landon Liboiron

I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.

Khloe Kardashian

With love, you don't mislead or play around, so if you're not perfectly clear, just be honest about it.

Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Jane Austen

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Jamie Oliver

Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

Janis Joplin

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

Sue Monk Kidd

'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

Richard G. Scott

A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

Bret Harte

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.

Boris Becker

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

Bobby Unser

I feel honesty always works.

Bob Dylan

You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it

Billy Bragg

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

Brigham Young

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Brian Regan

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

Honesty is the foundation for trust; you can't have one without the other.