Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bono

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

Arthur Schopenhauer

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

Aristophanes

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

Antonio Porchia

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

Bruce Jenner

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

Bruce Lee

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.

Brooke Shields

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Edward Young

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

Edmund Burke

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

Edmund Burke

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Elijah Wood

A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.