Honesty Quotes
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The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.
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I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.
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Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
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One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.
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Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.
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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises...
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.
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All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.
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Truth and honesty is my thing.
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There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
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The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
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Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.
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For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
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If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
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Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.
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In all honesty, when you talk about 'the gay community,' you are talking about my community, haha.
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Everyone appreciates me for my honesty. Why shouldn't I speak my mind? I will not say I am blunt. I don't speak about others.
