Honesty Quotes
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.
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.
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.
What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.
My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.
It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
There is something so pure and frank and noble about him that to doubt his sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.
I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.
Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.