Honest Quotes · Page 131

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

— Aristophanes

The only guy who's honest is the guy who sings in the shower. Everyone else is a prostitute.

— Kim Fowley

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

— Mark Twain

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about…

— Antony Sher

I have to be honest about this, I do skip leg day once in a while.

— Alex Hogh Andersen

What I admire is people who are grounded and resistant to all kinds of whisperings. Kimi Raikkonen, for example. You may like…

— Sebastian Vettel

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

— Holly Black

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

— James Jones

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for…

— Edward Abbey

If you Need to convince others that you’re happy, then you have Not found real Joy. If you Need to impress others…

— Eric Allen

I like painting, I think it's relaxing. I also like designing; I don't really like the manual labor, to be honest.

— Christina Anstead

Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never…

— Hunter S. Thompson

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

— Lord Chesterfield

If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here,…

— Barbara Boxer

In music in general, you're always getting a lot of information, buts it's most important to have honest communication. It's always important…

— Jillian Hervey

Closing the confidence gap means being honest about your abilities, not constantly undervaluing them.

— Katty Kay

“Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.”

— Ken Poirot

I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;…

— James Branch Cabell

I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important…

— Aimee Bender

I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went…

— Paul Rodgers

I love the supporting characters because you get to do more, to be totally honest. It's been sort of a theme with…

— Channing Tatum

Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world.…

— Wayne Muller

To be honest, when I was younger, I went to schools that made me aware I wasn't the brightest.

— Phoebe Dynevor

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

— M. C. Escher

It was a scary decision to let cameras into my life, but if I was going to do it, I just wanted…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

What I don’t like are arrogant people. We’re all equal. I don’t like it when a person assumes to be better. It…

— Selena

I never wanted to do music to get girls, right, to get popular, or anything like that. I really love music and…

— Aaron Bruno

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

— Gin Wigmore

I love kids, but I have to be honest: I am that person at a dinner party who's a little relieved when…

— Jonathan Slavin

I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.

— Adelaide Kane

To be quite honest my country [Colombia] still shows that it can be intolerant.

— Juan Pablo Escobar

Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow.

— Tracy Morgan

Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put…

— Criss Jami

The little smiling cottage! where at eve He meets his rosy children at the door, Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife,…

— Edward Dyer

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other…

— Sam Harris

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is…

— Michael Cunningham

Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.

— Vince Poscente

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

— Dylan Moran

It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day…

— Rankin

I love attention. Maybe my desire for attention is a little too out of control, but I'm very honest.

— Marc Jacobs