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Quotes About Honest

I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
~ Yvonne Strahovski
I'm unpolished, I guess.
~ Alessia Cara
I'm not a beat around the bush kind of guy.
~ Mike Leach
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
If I'm appearing on 'Raw,' then I'm usually there to help sell tickets to something, and that's when you see the 'HBK' Shawn Michaels come out. At panels, I can be more open and honest and show some more humility. They don't want me talking about my family on TV, but I can in a panel setting.
~ Shawn Michaels
I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The fabulous land where there was justice for the poor, where the government was not the lackey of the rich, where the penniless Sicilians rose to riches simply by good honest labor.
~ Mario Puzo
Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it the antidote to the rest of the world. It's so unapologetically working class and attitude-free. Everyone's looking to take the piss out of you, as they put it. They're all comedians, and tough. They don't put on airs.
~ Anthony Bourdain
We know the dear old rhyme: — "It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
~ Anthony Trollope
Now if you have proofs to bring forward, bring them forward, and your moral discourse as well; if you have no enthymemes, then fall back upon moral discourse: after all, it is more fitting for a good man to display himself as an honest fellow than as a subtle reasoner.
~ Aristotle
Imagine, always pretending to run a world. Always imitating the sort of people they think they might be if the world were the sort of world it isn't. Pretending to be words like 'normal' and 'wholesome' and 'honest' and 'decent' and 'self-respecting' and all the rest, when even the words aren't real. Imagine, being people.
~ Shirley Jackson
Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled by art to the usual rules of courtesy, yet so far frank and honest, that they seemed as if they disclaimed to conceal the natural working of the soul.
~ Sir Walter Scott
You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished...
~ Tennessee Williams
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
~ John Winthrop
straight-talking, hard-working, kind but clearly built with an unbreakable core of steel.
~ Elton John
We urgently need an open and honest debate with the public about what help and support they will be entitled to when they are older, and what it is reasonable for them to contribute in return.
~ Liz Kendall
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
~ Robert Grosseteste
Part of the myth is that these model citizens have been given nothing by the government and have made it on their own. The American Dream is that any honest, self-disciplined, hard-working person can do the same.
~ George Lakoff
The poetry of life, the inner side of nature, rises near the surface to meet the eyes of the man who makes. The advantage gained by the carpenter of Nazareth at his bench is the inheritance of every workman as he imitates his maker in the divine - that is, honest - work.
~ George MacDonald
Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
~ George Washington
Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.
~ Michael Leunig
I thought of 'The Big Sick' as a placeholder title, to be completely honest. I've grown to love it.
~ Emily V. Gordon
I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.
~ Charlie Watts
I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
~ Emily Blunt