Honest Quotes - Page 24

• I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

  Jenny Downham

  People, Want, Cry

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Character, Doubt

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.225, Harper Collins

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• She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted something to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

  Richard Yates

  Aunt, Knowing, Parent

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• It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Dad, Book, Talking

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• To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Men, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.68, A&C Black

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• The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

  Catherine Marshall

  Cutting, Sides, Clear

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• Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

  Confucius

  Kindness, Honesty, Persistence

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• It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.

  Fuyumi Soryo

  Hate

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• Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.

  Simone Elkeles

  Romantic, Giving, Answers

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Leaving Paradise”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Sarcastic, Believe, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people's aloneness.

  Rajneesh

  People, Individuality, Doe

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• Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

  Jules Verne

  Hands, Would Be, Faces

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• If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Self, Shame

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• Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.

  Ian Fleming

  Love, Luck, Suffering

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• I was born to poor because of honest parents.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Parent, Poor, Born

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Negligible Tales”, p.23, Ambrose Bierce

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• But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful?Someone kind or cruel?Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about what we choose to do but about who we choose to be. I choose to always be loyal to myself. -Raven Madison

  Ellen Schreiber

  Thinking, Ravens, Loyal

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• Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Grandma, Eye, Grandmother

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.181, Penguin

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• when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Betray, Honest With Yourself

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping With Strangers”, p.119, Penguin

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• Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along…well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Taken, Sight, Dying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feel Better, People, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Taken, Mean, Credit

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.73, FastPencil Inc

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• I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

  Truman Capote

  Heart, May, Tongue

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.82, Vintage

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• We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

  Holly Black

  Liars, Thinking, Trying

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Liars, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.

  John Green

  Ifs

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.159, Penguin

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