Honest Quotes
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I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not.
Cat Deeley
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I long for the days of good honest crooks.
Edward Bates
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If someone comes in and says, "What are you doing," if I'm honest, the answer is, "I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why."
William Gibson
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It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.
Sebastian Vettel
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There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.
Erik Parker
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Most of my songs are inspired by both falling in love and heartache. And it was a turning point for me as a singer and songwriter as it dawned on me that I wasn't being honest enough about what I truly feel.
Anzia Yezierska
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Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings.
Stephen Covey
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Social distancing at its best. Wish I was riding this out in the desert, to be honest.
Frank Godla
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Honesty's the best policy.
Miguel de Cervantes
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Seneca the Younger
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Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.
Thomas Sowell
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The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.
Dan Beachy-Quick
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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Each country has its own manner of telephoning. The Russians, at least, are honest. They say, “It is Ivan Ivanovich who is bothering you.”
Bel Kaufman
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I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.
Erik Estrada
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I had to be honest in my songwriting for it to be where it is, and it's always scary wondering if anyone will connect with that.
Anzia Yezierska
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When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.
Scott Pelley
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He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that they would like to be They condition themselves to not embrace what they are Love is a clinging nausea I tried to disagree with him It was no use I never saw a more honest look in anyone's eyes.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
Simon Cameron
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Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.
William Shakespeare
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All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
Steve Martin
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Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.
Christina Stead
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All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.
Sarah Dessen
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Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.
Sarah Koenig