I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
James A. Baldwin

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee Iacocca

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
Johnny Depp

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.
Albert Camus

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan Greenspan

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Henry Miller

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
Frank Sinatra

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton