Party honesty is party expediency.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
~By George Burns ~
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
~By Pete McCloskey ~
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.
~By John McCain ~
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
~By Talib Kweli ~
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
~By Dean Inge ~
Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.
~By Nils-Axel Morner ~
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
~By John Hope ~
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
~By Freeman Thomas ~
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
~By Hugh Prather ~
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~By John Steinbeck ~
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
~By Boris Becker ~
Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
~By Charles Kennedy ~
Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.
~By Lemuel K. Washburn ~
Honesty is something you can't wear out.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
~By Dalton Trumbo ~
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
~By John Lyly ~
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
~By Josh Billings ~
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
~By Jessamyn West ~
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
~By John McCarthy ~
The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
~By George Burns ~
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
~By Leo Burnett ~
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
~By Salvador Dali ~
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
~By Michael Moriarty ~
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
~By Mark Twain ~
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
~By Nigel Kneale ~
Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
~By Jose Marti ~
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
~By Meyer Lansky ~
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
~By Ed McMahon ~
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
~By Garth Brooks ~
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
~By Lance Loud ~
A friend to honesty and a foe to crime.
~By Allan Pinkerton ~
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
~By George Oppen ~
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
~By George Bancroft ~
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
~By Shania Twain ~
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
~By William Shakespeare ~
I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
~By Richard Bach ~
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
~By Leslie Banks ~
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
~By Groucho Marx ~
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
There is indeed a inherently honesty to it.
~By Ben Edwards ~
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
~By Robert Morgan ~
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.
~By Chris Ware ~
I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.
~By Frank Langella ~
Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
~By Judith Martin ~
In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.
~By Mario Vazquez ~
He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
~By John Lyly ~
The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.
~By Genevieve Bujold ~
But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~By Noel Coward ~
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
~By Meredith Monk ~
Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.
~By Star Jones ~
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
~By Jon Secada ~
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~By Noel Coward ~
In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.
~By Michael Berryman ~
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
~By William Shakespeare ~
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Honesty is very sexy.
~By Valerie Bertinelli ~
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
Honesty is the best policy.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
~By Shirley MacLaine ~
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
~By Todd Rundgren ~
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
~By James Oliver ~
And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.
~By Todd Rundgren ~
Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.
~By Ray Blanton ~
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
Honesty will never break you.
~By Kate Hudson ~
That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
~By Roberta Flack ~
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
~By Charles Dickens ~
It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
~By Daryl Gates ~
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
~By Richard Whately ~
I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
~By Thomas Kretschmann ~
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