Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

William Shakespeare

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

William Shakespeare

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

William Shakespeare

A very honest woman but something given to lie

William Shakespeare

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

Alice Cooper

Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.

Albert Camus

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Albert Camus

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

Albert Camus

Integrity has no need of rules.

Amanda Hocking

Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.

Clay Aiken

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

Clarence Darrow

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

Clarence Darrow

With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

Daniel Defoe

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Alexander Payne

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

Alexander Pope

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

E. M. Forster

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

Don DeLillo

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

Don DeLillo

... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.

Donatella Versace

I'd need an incredibly talented make up artist to make me look natural!

Douglas Brinkley

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

Coolio

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Clark Moustakas

When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.

Daniel Radcliffe

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

Daniel Berrigan

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

Dan Hill

Sometimes when we touch..The honesty's too much, and I have to close my eyes and hide. I want to hold you till I die, 'til we both break down and cry, I want to hold you till this fear in me subsides.

E. B. White

Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.

David Frum

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

David Bain

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

Davy Crockett

I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.

Corey Hart

Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual’s inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination,

Confucius

Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.