Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Carroll

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

John Lyly

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

John Lyly

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

Jimmy Buffett

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

Jimmy Buffett

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

Jimmy Buffett

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

Jimmy Buffett

Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple

Jim Rohn

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

George Lopez

I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.

George Lopez

I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but when you think that honesty and truth is really your best weapon you embrace it and put it behind you. In the end, it drives you and motivates you to do good work. No one should be ashamed about where they come from as long as you desire to be a compassionate and decent person.

Elisabeth Moss

Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.

Judith Martin

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

Judith Martin

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Judith Martin

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Judith Martin

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

Judith Martin

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

Josh Hutcherson

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

Katherine Center

I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.

Kate Hudson

Honesty will never break you.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

Lois McMaster Bujold

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

Lucy Walker

My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

Louise Slaughter

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Louise Rennison

He said, "Hi, gorgeous," which I think is nice. I admire honesty.

Maimonides

Hold firmly to your word.

Mahatma Gandhi

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Mahatma Gandhi

Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.

Mahatma Gandhi

In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

Freeman Thomas

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Frank Langella

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.