Honest Quotes

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Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great… — James Russell Lowell
What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we know how...We want… — Michael Hutchence
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going… — John Prine
It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people,… — George Washington
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain… — Thomas Jefferson
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld… — Robert Burns
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln
It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of… — William Paterson
The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out'… — David Hockney
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. — Charles Dickens
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way. — Dan Beachy-Quick
Being so honest in my writing is cathartic. — Brian Molko
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. — Robert Burns
The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say, 'Look,… — Ray Charles
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy,… — Phyllis Bottome
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. — Frank Moore Colby
An honest lie is better than a boring truth. — Marcel Wanders
I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest, — Riccardo Tisci
War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave… — Unknown Author
After gaining the incredible platform from 'Glee,' it wasn't so much of a decision to get involved as it was an opportunity to take part.… — Darren Criss
For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money… — Hans F. Sennholz
Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about… — Unknown Author
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will… — Joyce Tenneson
If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and cultural… — Unknown Author
Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world… — Susan Patron

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