Honest Quotes - Page 9

• When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

  Dan Brown

  Silence, Yes And No, Answers

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Perspective, Healthy

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, University of Chicago Press

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

  Holly Black

  Criminals

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

  Hugh Howey

  Liars, Men, Problem

  Hugh Howey (2014). “The Wool Trilogy: Wool, Shift, Dust”, p.995, Random House

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• I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.

  Graeme Simsion

  Love, Mind, Want

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kindness, Kissing, Littles

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.613, Bantam

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• God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Locks, Honest Woman, Wanted

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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• Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

  Veronica Roth

  Mean, Want, You Choose

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• Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.

  James Kirke Paulding

  Equality, Hands, Stupidity

  Washington Irving, William Irving, James Kirke Paulding (1857). “Salmagundi: Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. [pseud.] and Others ....”, p.162

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• People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

  Ted Allen

  Food, People, Meals

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• Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest

  Russell Means

  Freedom, Long, Peaceful

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• It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

  Denis Fonvizin

  Freedom, Democracy, Merit

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• I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really.

  Vladimir Putin

  Hilarious, Gestures, Kitten

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• Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  History, Weapons

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humor, Good Luck, Hard Work

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.23

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• I have heard about the civilized,
  the marriages run on
  talk, elegant and
  honest, rational.
  But and I are savages.

  Sharon Olds

  I Love You, Running, Savages

  Sharon Olds, “Primitive”

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• I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.

  Robert Graves

  Believe, Passion, Poetry

  Lecture at Oxford. Time, December 15, 1961.

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• If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracy, Politics, Politician

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.

  Stephen Schneider

  Libertarian Party, Scary, Doubt

  "Apocalypse Abuse and 'Climate Doomism'" by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 13, 2017.

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• I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

  Mark Twain

  Witty, Men, Shining

  "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

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• ...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.

  John Shelby Spong

  Gay, People, Catholic

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• A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

  Anthony Weiner

  Mistake, Media, Religion

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• Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Truth, Candor

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.7592, e-artnow

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  He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

  Thomas Paine

  Truth, Political, Dare

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Ambition, Errors

  Alexander Hamilton (1904). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton”

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