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.

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.

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.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.

Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.