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Quotes About Honesty

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?
~ Emma Goldman
It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.
~ Candace Bushnell
She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.
~ Azar Nafisi
Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.
~ Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
~ Don DeLillo
I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.
~ Nathan Fillion
So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.
~ David Levithan
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.
~ John H. McWhorter
What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.
~ William Shakespeare
Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.
~ David Bain
When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
~ Kevin Bacon
Don't say it...I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty.
~ Ken Kesey
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
~ John Donne
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Honesty is a big deal, and when your honest everything will fall into place.
~ Gabrielle Dennis
What is more arrogant than honesty?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
~ Paloma Faith
I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.
~ Michael Hyatt
The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.
~ Shawn Stockman
I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
~ Andrew Sullivan
When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
~ Marianne Moore
Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.
~ Samuel R. Delany