Famous Quotes & Sayings

Talib Kweli

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

Tony Parsons

It can't always be a honeymoon

Sinead O'Connor

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Simone Elkeles

Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.

Simon Pegg

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy...

Thomas Carlyle

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

Spider Robinson

honesty is hard work.

Shirley Manson

I feel privileged, to be honest.

Scott Watson

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Thucydides

we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty

Robert A. Heinlein

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

Robert A. Heinlein

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

Rihanna

I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well just be up front about it.

Tim O'Brien

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Tiger Woods

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

Tom Stoppard

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.

Vijay Mallya

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

Vidya Balan

Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

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

Thank you for your honesty.

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.

Thomas Otway

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Thomas Paine

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Thomas Hood

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.