Honest Quotes

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

If one is honest there is no need to remember.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.

I like telling people the truth.

My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.

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.

Tell the truth.

The merchants of old Cairo are honest in their dealings, and if one of them is caught cheating a customer, he is mounted on a camel with a bell in his hand and paraded about the city, ringing the bell and crying out, 'I have committed a misdemeanor and am suffering reproach. Whosoever tells a lie is rewarded with public disgrace.' The grocers, druggists, and peddlers furnish sacks for everything they sell, whether glass, pottery, or papers; therefore, there is no need for shoppers to take their own bags with them

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it a fascinating book. Keith's a pretty honest fellow.

Don't kid yourself. Be honest with yourself. Take your own inventory.

I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest.

We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you.

I'm a pretty open book.