Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here." "Yeah, but what if he's naked or something?" Ash led him into the foyer. "I've known Kyrian for over two thousand years, and I can honesty say that I have never once caught him naked in his living room." The door closed behind them without Ash or Nick touching it- something that always unnerved Nick when Ash did it. "Besides, Rosa's still here. I know he's not walking around bare-assed with her on duty.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

Nigel Kneale

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

N. T. Wright

One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.

Mignon McLaughlin

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

John Winthrop

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Wilmot

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

John Wooden

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

John Ruskin

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.

A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person who's going to turn something in. But people are honest. They really are.

Callie Thorne

And so much honesty. People go to school for years and years to get that kind of honesty.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Philip Sidney

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Marianne Moore

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me ...

Marianne Moore

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

Meat Loaf

I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.

Max Lucado

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

May Sarton

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

John Ruskin

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

John Quincy Adams

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Noel Coward

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Nils-Axel Morner

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Honesty's the best policy.

Miguel de Cervantes

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

Neil Finn

I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

John Harington

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

John Galsworthy

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

John Donne

Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

John Donne

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

John Donne

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

John O'Donohue

To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.

John Michael Hayes

Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.