Quotes About Honesty

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.