Honest Quotes

• people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

  

  John Hancock
  • People
  • Men
  • Respect

• Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Honest
  • Arrested
  • Robbers

• If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Human
  • Honest
  • Murder

• Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Honest
  • Relationships
  • Maintain

• The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • People
  • Money
  • Law

• 'Bottled Up' is so honest. It's something we all can relate to.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Honest
  • Relate

• I feel as a writer I’m growing and hopefully each song I write is a little more honest.

  

  Josh Wilson
  • Song
  • Honest
  • Writer

• The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Reality
  • Stupid
  • Honest

• If I'm honest, I find that the more booze the better the festival crowd. This is perhaps an irresponsible thing to say, but it's true.

  

  Gary Lightbody Snow Patrol
  • True
  • Honest
  • Crowd

• No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

  

  William Walton
  • Streams
  • Scholar
  • Preventing

• I'll miss all my teammates. I'll miss Elvis (Andrus) and (Adrian) Beltre, Mitch (Moreland), Matt Harrison and [manager Ron] Washington. To be honest with you, I hope they go 0-162. I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass.

  

  Ian Kinsler
  • Friends
  • Hope
  • Missing

• To be honest about it, sex was not worth the wait.

  

  Kevin Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Sex
  • Honest
  • Wait

• I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Value
  • Judge
  • Advance

• I love writing about things I know, and I like to be very honest in my music.

  

  Alice Merton
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Honest

• I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest. I'm sick of the whole subject of my hair. I mean, are you just sitting there looking at my hair, or are you looking at me?

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Mean
  • Hair
  • Sick

• I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Democracy

• What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Song
  • Honest

• Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Hope
  • Speed
  • Dust

• I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and I am terrified of not being approved of.

  

  Sarah Lacy
  • Strong
  • Opinion
  • Enough

• Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.

  

  Roland Orzabal
  • Honest
  • Bother
  • Piracy

• I think it's important to be kind of brutally honest without making anyone else feel bad in any way, if possible.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Way
  • Honest
  • Feel Bad

• Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Honest
  • Commercial

• Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Responsibility

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