Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

George Bernard Shaw

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

George Bernard Shaw

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

George Bernard Shaw

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

Actually to be honest with you, I know we are, I know we are.

Jeff Bagwell

The team can't wait on me. They need to know now. I think I'll honestly know if I can or can't.

I've lived here all my life, and I honestly don't understand this place,

a lack of judgment. I really don't understand it, to be honest with you.

You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!

We just need somebody that would be willing to look at that and be honest and fair.

We were ready for the press. It might have hurt us once or twice, but I honestly think it was as much us as it was them.

Tom Renney

I'm not really willing to put him in (tonight), to be honest with you. I'd like to see him (tomorrow) and see how he's making out.

Jeff Burton

In all honesty, it's a matter of me not messing up. Today had nothing to do with me. The only impact I had on the day was to be a warm-blooded person who could turn the thing on and mash the gas.

Diego Forlan

I'm just thinking about tomorrow night. I've never been a planner. I've always taken things day by day. As long as I'm honest to myself and as long as we try to make original-sounding music, I'll be happy.

It's positive in the sense that the WTO members are moving forward. That's better than the alternative. But honestly it's kind of a minimal progress. We've spent a week here, and you can't say that it's monumental progress.

John Calipari

These players all know that I'll be the first one to say, 'Hey, you know what? It's time for you to go. I'll be the first guy. If it's time to stay, I'll be honest with them.

I told them that night that I was an honest man.

Rudyard Kipling

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who

Angie Harmon

I left Law and Order because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

I love honesty, and she's the most honest person I ever met. I knew a lot of people. You can tell if they're going to be for you or not. I knew that she was for me.

Michael Robinson

That's probably what I'm going to miss the most, to be honest with you,

It's music of the people. It's open and honest and straightforward and comes to you with open arms.

Greta Garbo

Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough

Miguel

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

Jeff Lewis

I've got to be honest with you. That was really touching.

Nothing from my personal experiences with him would ever have led me to question his integrity, his morals, his honesty. He was always regarded as someone with real integrity and somebody with a keen moral compass.

Burt Lancaster

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

James E. Faust

Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

Euripides

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

Euripides

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Euripides

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Cassandra Clare

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

Carolyn Kizer

I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a highly developed moral sense and a bitter honesty, is rare at any time and especially in this time. We need him.