Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Greta Garbo

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

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.

Frank Zappa

My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

Fred Rogers

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

George Hamilton

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

Harold B. Lee

To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

Harold B. Lee

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

Graham Spanier

Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion.

H. G. Wells

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

Jean de la Bruyere

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

Jay Leno

You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.

You can know someone in a moment of Honesty than ever you can in a lifetime of Lies..

Evo Morales

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty...

Mindy Grossman

I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.

Kevin Drew

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

Karl Marx

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Judith Crist

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

Myles Munroe

The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship; for a female, communication and conversation. The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness. The fourth basic need of a male is domestic support; for a female, financial support. The fifth basic need of a male is admiration and respect; for a woman, family commitment.

Moliere

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

H. G. Wells

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

H. L. Mencken

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle