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Quotes About Honesty

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
~ William Shakespeare
We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.
~ Bill O'Reilly
There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
I'm the voice of honesty.
~ Howard Stern
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
~ George Eliot
Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
~ Jack Kerouac
With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends
~ Kathryn Stockett
I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.
~ Alden Ehrenreich
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.
~ Ameen Rihani
And you fall, and you crawl, and you break, what you get, and you turn it into honesty and promise you're never going to find you're faking, no no no.
~ Avril Lavigne
I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).
~ Ayelet Waldman
Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.
~ Charlie Cox
I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.
~ Chris Ware
I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
~ Christina Aguilera
About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.
~ Arthur Baer
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.
~ Benjamin Bratt
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.
~ Cornel West
I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.
~ David Blunkett
I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.
~ David Brooks
I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.
~ David Hurn
When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
~ David James Duncan