Quotes about honesty
honesty passion long-ago
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. Jeaniene Frost
honesty thinking sleeves
You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you? Jennifer Garner
honesty integrity character
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form. Jean-Paul Sartre
honesty selling dies
honesty dies in selling itself. George Sand
honesty irony honest
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. George Saunders
honesty character men
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life. Herbert Hoover
honesty truth men
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. F. Scott Fitzgerald
honesty people virtue
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
honesty cat emotional
The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans. Ernest Hemingway
honesty writing editing
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
honesty cat emotional
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
honesty cat absolutes
A cat has absolute honesty.
honesty imagination imagine
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
honesty humble medicine
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. Gretel Ehrlich
honesty party expediency
Party honesty is party expediency. Grover Cleveland
honesty book blessed
Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.
honesty two fake
The Two Most Important Words In The World Are Honesty And Sincerity, If You Can Fake These You've Got It Made. Groucho Marx
honesty hunger-and-thirst politics
the last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs ... Harriet Martineau
honesty powerful integrity
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. Harper Lee
honesty lying people
Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy. Ian Mckellen
honesty stupid moving
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble. Hugh Prather
honesty lying data
The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values. Howard Zinn
honesty people littles
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. Hosea Ballou
honesty war enemy
You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that! Friedrich Nietzsche
honesty views age
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
honesty pride illusion
One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
honesty frankness
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
honesty business keys
In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy. George Burns
honesty telling-the-truth realms
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm. George Bernard Shaw
honesty temperature absurd
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
honesty police rebellious
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
honesty government choices
You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.
honesty men persons
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.