Quotes About Honesty

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you're already learning how to make it less harmful.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

I feel honesty always works.

Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

Vote to protect your family. Vote for honesty, integrity, and accountability.

I like the girls who are honest, because honesty is important.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.