Quotes About Honesty

Nothing is about honest disagreement; it is all about your interlocutor's lack of basic human decency.

John Adams's maxim: "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."1

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

I am non-corrupt, qualified, eloquent and fully committed to the party.

What people would qualify as R&B is, for me, just soul. And I love honesty and soul and heavy, crunchy beats that move you and make you breathe a little bit faster.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

I feel like it's weird to list all my crap qualities.

I want to be perceived - or maybe I perceive myself - as this really easygoing, honest person that's just giving. Realistically, I have those qualities, but I'm very aggressive. I can be very harsh. It comes off almost mean, you know?

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

It's often said that the most important qualities in a chief executive are character and judgment.

I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Modesty is my best quality.

I'm a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do, and that are not into the showbiz.

I've got no qualms in making my feelings clear when I need to.

I've been given my money. Nobody has ever beaten me out of one quarter. And that's all I've ever been concerned about.

My private life has never been a secret. I've never been a closet queen.

Christine and the Queens is about not being safe.

I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn't really hide being gay. Some queer kids are just more straight-passing than others. I was not one of those kids.

I'm not going to force your participation in a conversation, I'm going to say I can be an example that these things can exist and don't have to be mutually exclusive. Like being a queer artist and being a Christian. Those things don't have to be mutually exclusive and I'm just going to be honest about them so that you know.

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.