Famous Quotes & Sayings

Truman Capote

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Tricia Helfer

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people. I am inspired by hard work and honesty. And I am inspired by nature.

Raymond Chandler

I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

Raymond Chandler

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

Rick Warren

If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

Paul Valery

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Meher Baba

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

Pope John Paul II

Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

Pink

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other

Philippe Starck

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

Pope Francis

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

Rachel Caine

Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.

Paulo Coelho

The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.

Paulo Coelho

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Paulo Coelho

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Paulo Coelho

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.

Primo Levi

If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Victor Hugo

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Victor Hugo

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Vernon Howard

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Veronica Roth

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.

Veronica Roth

What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. "Honestly?" "Does now seem like the time for honesty?" I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

Veronica Roth

Thank you for your honesty.

Robert Frost

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

Richard Dreyfuss

I'm nothing if not honest.

Thomas Otway

Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.

Thomas Otway

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Thomas Otway

You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.