Honesty Quotes - Page 16

• Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Temperature, Absurd, Absolutes

  4 Copy quote

• Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Yield, Knavery, Firm

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Voice, Intuition, Spirit

  7 Copy quote

• If you cheat, if your weights and measures are inaccurate, if your financial dealings are shoddy, if you take things that do not belong to you, you won't be able to hide it forever. People will find out. Then your reputation and your business will suffer, because people don't want to deal with someone who can't be trusted.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  People, Forever, Suffering

  4 Copy quote

• The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

  Ambrose

  Clothes, Simplicity, Body

  7 Copy quote

• One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  One Day, Ordinary, Strange Times

  35 Copy quote

• I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

  Nathan Fillion

  People, Laughing, Dumb

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Play, Common Sense

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.23, Modern Library

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.

  Alice Cooper

  Talking, Doubt, Middle

  5 Copy quote

• Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

  Al Yankovic

  Nintendo, Salt, Snail

  11 Copy quote

• Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Lying, Blame, Ran

  Song: Backstreets, Album: Born To Run, 1975

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

  Sheryl Crow

  French Toast, Bread, Bed

  Song: If It Makes You Happy

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Hero, Want

  Song: Hero

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.

  Garth Brooks

  Song: A Friend To Me, Album: Sevens, 1997

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Lows, Should, Fallen

  Song: Fallen

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Feeling so gay, feeling so gay.

  David Bowie

  Gay, Feelings

  4 Copy quote

• I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Two, Drunk, Week

  Song: A Pirate Looks At Forty, Album: A1A, 1974

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

  Lyle Lovett

  Men, Causes, Needs

  Song: Sonja, Album: I Love Everybody

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

  Ray Davies

  Girl, Parks, Jogging

  4 Copy quote

• This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Stupid, Downtime

  Song: A Little Green Rosetta

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

  Jackson Browne

  Trying, Way, Lost

  15 Copy quote

• You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

  Ray Davies

  Hate, I Hate You, Hate You

  Song: Hatred, Album: Phobia

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Wine, Mind, Cigarette

  Song: Jump In The River

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

  Tom Perrotta

  Sympathy, Eye, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

  Neil Young

  Wind, Knows

  4 Copy quote