Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carman

Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing

Christina Aguilera

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

Fran Lebowitz

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

George Washington

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

George Washington

Honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

George Washington

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

George Orwell

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Franz Grillparzer

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

Frank Zappa

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Jeanette Winterson

He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.

Jethro Tull

To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

Jeaniene Frost

I can give you honesty, monogamy, and more passion than you can stand, but not love. That emotion died in me long ago, as I suspect you already know.

George Eliot

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

George Eliot

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Gabriel Iglesias

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

George Herbert

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

George Herbert

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

Christopher Columbus

Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Christian Bale

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

Chris Ware

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

Chris Patten

It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things are going to be, just what's going to have to be done - and, maybe, ran all the risks on the side of honesty, rather than spinning stories and trying to win the headlines every day.

George W. Bush

Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.

George W. Bush

America treasures the relationship we have with our many Muslim friends, and we respect the vibrant faith of Islam which inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality. This year, may Eid also be a time in which we recognize the values of progress, pluralism, and acceptance that bind us together as a Nation and a global community. By working together to advance mutual understanding, we point the way to a brighter future for all.

George W. Bush

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

George Orwell

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

George Orwell

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict­ory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy ....

George Carlin

If there were only one cherry pie in the world, and Bill Clinton owned it, I might get a piece of it. If Bush or Reagan owned it, you'd have to kill them to get a piece of pie. That's my feeling about Bill. And Bill's a good bullshitter. America likes a good bullshitter. That's one of the reasons he was re-elected. Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off.