Honest Quotes - Page 49

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

How honest is it that we drink until we are dehydrated?

I'm afraid the President election is going to be rigged. I have to be honest.

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

What a fool honesty is.

All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

An honest man is respected by all parties.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.