Honest Quotes

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I'm always honest.

I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.