Quotes of: Honest-truth Keyword

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

I Am David

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

Killosophy

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

Revolutionary Road

I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.

Scepticism and Animal Faith

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.

The Spider's House

Sometimes you have to choose between being strong and being honest, if you want real answers.

A Memoir of Mercy

Why do you hate me so much? To be honest, I don't know why, but I really hate to feel this way.

Master of Stupidity

DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?

New Year's Thieve

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

Let Loose the Dogs

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

Legend

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.

The Land of Green Plums

It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

Taking Care of Business

Oh, you are well tuned now, But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am.

Othello

no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.

Panserhjerte

Our sex smelled like love—and monetary transaction. Whatever we had, it was politics at its most honest.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness.

Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick

He loved her when she was angry. And he was convinced it was because she was her most honest in those moments. ~Ruin

The Waking

They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.

Chuck Feeney

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

Alice Oswald

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to prac...

David Mamet