Honest Quotes

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.
Janeane Garofalo

History, Black, Racism

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.
Kristen Stewart

Long, Romance, Disarming

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
Ang Lee

Yourself, Honesty, Others

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France

Unless, Cheated, Merchant

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Ovid

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
Henry Rollins

Cool, Mind, Boss

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
Katherine Heigl

Hurt, Person, Feelings

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.
Thomas Huxley

Wise, True, Question

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
E. O. Wilson

Religion, Problems, Themselves

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb Colton

Best, Two, Reputation

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Tennessee Williams

Writing, Cannot, Separated

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

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
Cesar Chavez

Men, Lives, Ourselves

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
George MacDonald

Friends, Ourselves, Shall

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono

Equality, Fool, Justice

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid

Purpose, Annoying

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
William Hazlitt

Hard, Born, Politician

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
Jack Nicholson

Women, Men, Everything

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.
Dick Van Patten

True, Loyalty, Friends

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett

Life, Happiness, Happy

I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.
Kim Kardashian

Pretty, Young, Question

Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Brigham Young

Actions, Hearts, Produce

It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.
Sienna Miller

Ignore, Negative, Energy

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
Johnny Cash

Life, Work, Good

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.
Drake

Truth, End, Hard

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
William Makepeace Thackeray

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
Charles Caleb Colton

Men, Find, Write

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
Alanis Morissette

Dreams, Marriage, Family

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.
Rush Limbaugh

Before, Times, Read

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Charles Caleb Colton

Great, Find, Write

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