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We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

George Bernard Shaw

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Menander

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.

William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

William Shakespeare

I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.

Tommy Lasorda

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Tennessee Williams

An honest god's the noblest work of man.

Samuel Butler

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Vernon Howard

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Margaret Cho

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Benjamin Cardozo

It's not a good picture, and to be honest with you, I don't think it will ever get corrected.

Fred Dubard

His answer was an honest one -- I think the markets misinterpreted what I said.

Lyle Gramley

An honest man is the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope

He was very perceptive and very understanding and very honest. We were able to communicate in a way that was exceedingly positive and at the same time, very direct.

Barbara Cohen

Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.

Philip Crosby

I'm in a little bit of shock right now, to be honest. I'd give anything to go back four hours right now.

Andy Roddick

I'm not going to say I picked the corner, was going for top shelf and all that. I'm trying to be honest.

Ruslan Fedotenko

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Thomas Moore

We're not looking forward to that trip, to be honest with you.

Greg Garrison

The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men!

Charles Mackay

The computer can become your best friend because no one is looking at you. But you have to be very honest with yourself.

Susan Gibbons

Yes, if we were prepared to be honest we might rid ourselves of much self deception.

Moliere

I wasn't even born. I was born in 1978. They won in 1977. I missed it by a year. But to be honest, everyone talks about that year.

Kevin Bianco

To be honest, we don't have the financial resources. We don't have any television channels.

Salih Mutlaq

I took that as a racial connotation, to be honest with you.

Linford Christie

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

To be honest it is a relief to get the first win out of the way and we can kick on from here.

Laurie Wilson

I don't anticipate our membership dropping much, if at all, to be honest with you.

P. Brocklin Parks

I think the fact that we write honest music is part of our appeal.

Bert Mccracken

It bothers me a great deal. Because I like to think members of the profession are honest. That's what the law is all about.

Linda Willard

I will be surprised and disappointed if that happened, to be quite honest.

Jack Trautman

I wasn't expecting that, to be honest. It is a dream start, it will really lift the confidence and make my job a lot easier.

Richard Hill

Extremely honorable, she was extremely honest.

Cary Goldstein

To be honest, I was really nervous going into the back. That's why I was so confident going into the breast, just knowing that the back was all out of the way.

Matt Benoit

He loved his home. He loved his daughters. And he loved me. He was very stubborn but very fair and honest.

Patricia Lewis

We didn't come out to play, and to be honest I can't explain it. I can't understand how you can lace it up and not have any interest.

Derrick Edmonds

Are they being honest just to vent or are they being honest because they really care about you and the relationship?

Irene Boffo

When he says he doesn't know, it's the honest-to-God truth.

Patricia Watkins

Be honest with yourself. Think about the necessary steps to get there.

Marlia Fontaine

I was sh*tting myself to be honest.

Cameron White

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide, ... When I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

Kenny Loggins

She was a lovely woman. She was smart, bright and honest. She was a decent, good woman all of her life, all of her life.

Minnie Kennedy

I told him to give it a try, and he cleared it on his first try. He had never done it before, honest to God. Probably anything he picked up, he would be proficient at.

Ricky Narracci

It really is just guys who just really honest-to-God love to play football.

Tom Torrisi

We're brutally honest with them, and that aids in motivation.

Amy Jones

He was a real pain in the (expletive). To be honest.

John Shepherd

Although this case is one of the more serious examples of its type, it is certainly not unique. Honest customers of the banks end up funding these fraudsters' gains.

Robert Scott

They play an honest style of hockey. They're going to beat you at their game, and that is hard-hitting, hard-nosed hockey.

John Lafontaine

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

Marty Robbins

To be honest with you, I don't see how we can play.

John Guerin

I didn't even think I'd play football again, to be honest with you. Then I got a call from Canada.

Mike Sellers

Two or three years ago we would have went down in flames, to be honest with you.

Mariota Theodoris

To be honest with you, I think we match up pretty well with them.

Laurie Kelly

We're just going to make them more honest out here.

Gene Brown

Actually to be honest with you, I know we are, I know we are.

Garfield White

Let's be honest, this is a game where The Citadel gets a nice paycheck.

Paul Maguire

To be honest this is down to Sophie Mitchell, who has had him all summer.

Gary Moore

We need to be honest and open and be able to accept the consequences.

Fran Bradley

We're always looking for the best candidate. There's not very many people out there like her, to be honest with you.

Doug Frame

I'm going to be honest. I felt good when we got a run across because Shelby was pitching well today and the defense was playing well.

Don Mcgeary

I don't have to shoot it a lot, I just have to keep the defense honest.

Mario Chalmers

To be honest when I was playing at the end I just fell out of love with the game and I was going through the motions.

Kenny Dalglish

Really, we should not. City Hall is not approachable. To be honest, I think they should all go.

Norman Peacock

We have created a simple and honest way for contributors to help the victims by donating directly to one of three causes we have researched.

Joe Vitale

They have to be honest with her as to how they're playing and how they're feeling and whether they're ready to go or not.

Patty Sheehan

He's very direct and honest and wasn't afraid to say what he thinks.

Richard Kessel

I think to be honest, we are much happier with the new leadership at Kmart.

Gary Knell

It's all finesse, honest to God.

Mark Franz

It's music of the people. It's open and honest and straightforward and comes to you with open arms.

John Gill

We have so many good colleges. If you're honest, it's not the education they get as much as the connections, the people they meet. And that's where a lot of it's at.

David Elkind

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Owen D. Young

This is a clear message from the workers to the company to listen to them and be honest about the future.

Paul Kenny

Honest people don't tell you they're honest. Cool people don't say that they're cool. We should all be wondering why these guys feel a burning need to tell us how good they are.

Steve Manning

It just frees you to be more honest.

Judd Apatow

We just need somebody that would be willing to look at that and be honest and fair.

Jan Occhi

We never doubted for a second Ron Carey would emerge as a historic figure in the labor movement and an honest man.

Reid Weingarten

To be honest, I'd rather be the underdog. We always play better when we're the underdog.

Dedrick Finn

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

Leelee Sobieski

I aspire to be like that character. He's honest. It's the things I'm thinking but not saying.

Larry David

When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known.

Chuck Alexander

It's gutsy and it's honest.

John Hamre

We're straight shooters. We would do a disservice if we weren't honest with them.

Candice Westbrook

The only thing I knew about Cincinnati was WKRP, and that's the honest-to-God truth.

Corie Blount

Honest taxpayers expecting a refund deserve to be treated fairly.

Mark Everson

I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

James Frey

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Cornel West

Every word I said was the complete and honest truth.

Mark Swartz

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

Elbert Hubbard

He is just a guy who would never do that sort of thing intentionally. He is as honest as the day is long. He is an honest guy.

Aaron Ward

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

Martin Delany

It was a surprise, to be honest. A lot of other coaches probably deserve this more than I do.

Mike Parry

It's unusual, to be honest, to have a vendor recognize that there are things being done well.

Jan Dawson

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

Richard Roxburgh

In each case, we learned that we have to have honest communications. You've got to not ignore anything.

Scott Hubbard

They didn't really threaten a whole lot, to be honest with you. We just pitched well.

Craig Gibson

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Robert Burns

Open, honest and completely committed to changing her life and making her home better for her family and children.

Chris Lynch

To be honest, I don't think his remarks had any major effect.

Rick Klingman

No, no, I will write no autobiography. I do not believe that someone can write a perfectly honest autobiography.

Christa Wolf

The Coliseum is getting used an awful lot. Our usage, to be honest, I don't know how much more we can squeeze in.

Greg Simmons

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Simon Cameron

Though I be poor, I'm honest.

Thomas Middleton

I get the impression that Kato has been forthright and honest, and he's adding a lot of things that weren't addressed at the prosecution trial.

John Quinlan

To be honest with you, I can barely believe what I saw with my eyes.

Mike Wilton

George Harrison, he was delightful. He was such a nice, easy human being very spiritual, very giving, very honest.

Barry Feinstein

The course was a pleasant surprise. To be honest, I wasn't expecting it to be so good.

Steve Hatridge

Over-aggressive. To be honest, I was a little nervous.

Shenise Johnson

I felt it a little bit. I can tell you that. I have to be honest. Hopefully, from now and on, it's going to be better.

Roman Hamrlik

Well, to be honest, they're very even. That was one of the hardest decisions we've had to make. Mark has grown up with these kids and deserves to lead them.

John Beary

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Pamela Ribon

To be honest with you, we overlooked them. But we won't overlook them next time.

Tim Sims

To be honest, I was quite skeptical.

Allan Reid

Football Is an honest game. It's true to life . It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

Joe Namath

I believe he's a truthful and honest man. He means more to me than you'll ever know.

Brian Dake

They're both inappropriate men who are honest about themselves, and that's extraordinarily appealing.

Cameron Thor

An honest confession is good for the soul, but bad for the reputation.

Thomas Dewar

I really do believe we had an honest chance from the start. They were very fair with us. It was a fair game.

Josh Lief

We didn't believe it. I'm going to be honest with you. I mean, they don't even know us.

Calvin Leblanc

I think oversight is a function of any committee and keeps everybody honest.

Charles Farley

His velocity is picking up every week. He's got enough on it that he keeps them honest.

Todd Wilkinson

We didn't know we had it. It was an honest mistake.

Kris Carson

I don't know and to be honest with you, I don't really care.

Ike Taylor

To be honest, I haven't felt at my best since this tournament began. I didn't feel good with the court or the balls. But those are excuses. You have to accept when you don't play well and somebody else does.

Rafael Nadal

I don't care who he is as long as he is a nice person. He must be genuine and honest and have nice eyes and a smile.

Sarah Harding

For the first time in years, it felt honest to use the name Zombies.

Rod Argent

It's very difficult to do an honest appraisal of a lot of people's personal and professional performance without demeaning them, and to do it fairly and in hindsight.

Peter Hoekstra

I have to be honest, I was not real confident.

Jamon Gordon

That's never happened, to be honest with you. When that happens, you work twice as hard because you want to keep it up and give them more to cheer at.

Martin Biron

To be honest, they dominated the midfield, but created no scoring opportunities. Except for one and they put it away.

Derek Mazeitis

We were a bit down after yesterday to be honest, but two, three and four were so close.

Nina Daniels

I don't believe they made it in honest and good faith.

Avery Walker

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tom Stoppard

He is the most honest man you would ever want to meet in your life.

Pat Cooper

It's five? To be honest with you, I didn't count them. We try to stretch them out. It's a game at a time. If it's five, we've got to go out and get six. Half the time, I have to ask the staff what our record is.

Mark Fox

To be totally honest with you, no. My goal was to just make the top eight. I'm just happy that I'm going to state.

Christina Kouklakis

Coach Stein has always been genuine and honest with me and my mom and dad. There's probably not another coach in the country who would have done what she did for me.

Carlynn Savant

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Brigham Young

I'd be less than honest to say I enjoyed the last two years. That wasn't something that you want to put down in your memory banks and go through again.

Hugh Durham

I was a bit nervous as it was the first move in my career but it was an ideal move for me - I'm already from the area. To be honest I'm really excited.

Michael Carrick

I think Calvin is a great guy. He is honest and a straight shooter.

Christopher Merdon

Mr. Libby testified to the best of his honest recollection on all occasions.

Joseph Tate

To be quite honest, I haven't really been paying attention.

Steve Mitchell

That stunned me, to be honest. I have confidence that those are the situations that we will understand and handle a lot better in the future.

Jen Warden

To be honest, Carl has been out of really cutting-edge research for two years or so.

Chris Greene

My honest first, candid thought was, I hope this isn't messy.

Todd Peterson

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

Lord Northcliffe

These might be the last honest, direct connect lifestyle magazines out there.

Michael Huffman

I'm open, I'm honest, I'm experienced in business. I'm experienced on the City Council, I'm experienced on the County Board. And I'm fiscally conservative.

Dave Nichols

Our argument is all about getting an honest lay of the land so the decision makers can make the most informed decision.

Jeff Mikulina

I don't really know why to be honest. I'm not that great a hitter. When I face him (Duke), I don't know, I just get lucky.

Olmedo Saenz

The most honest answer is that I don't know. It's a matter of the heart. That's how I feel.

Haim Saban

We are trying to be honest with consumers.

Michael Sands

I thought it was absurd to take all this music. But it's a really honest film.

Kevin Drew

I started taking it upon myself to take the game over, to be honest. That dunk really got us going.

Chris Dimassa

He's a honest man who does what he says.

Steve Harvey

This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government more honest, more accountable and to make it better.

Gerry Nicholls

It was a general impression of her of being competent, of her being honest, and very, very well-educated. It became clear that Ellen was the best chance for this country.

Larry Gibson

Can I be honest with you guys?

Joe Jurevicius

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Andrew Johnson

(The person who turned in the rings) is an extremely honest person. They could've easily been gone and we're very thankful.

Tim Scatena

Honest to God, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say.

Robbie Fowler

The Basic Pilot program is a tool that allows honest businesses to remain honest.

Chris Bentley

Stuttgart is a great game for us. To be honest, it's the first big European tie we've been involved in this season.

Gareth Southgate

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

Sir John Vanbrugh

To be honest, I have achieved a lot more success in my career than I ever dreamed.

Adrian Fernandez

To be honest, I'm not sure there's a huge difference between the $150 products and the $130 and $70 (range).

Kevin Kane

If we're to be honest, ... there's a good probability that Mr. Lieu will serve out his terms in the Assembly.

Bob Holmes

To be honest, I don't think we've earned that yet. The most unhealthy thing is to get a lot of attention when we haven't really worked for it.

Billy Lunn

It's unbelievable the way the trainers here built me up. Little by little I could feel the results. To be honest, they turned my career around.

Angel Espada

I didn't know if he was going to make it or not, to be honest. He was a little bit out of shape, and he had a long way to go.

Steve Jackson

It was very honest. A lot of kids would have just kept on playing.

John Greer

To be honest, it got out of hand.

Arnetta Mccloud

He feels terrible about it. To be honest, he is serving a pretty harsh punishment for what happened.

Kent Waryan

Sometimes I go out even at four o'clock, ... It's just keeping people honest.

Gerald Johnson

To be pretty honest, we're pretty surprised. But we're not as surprised about it as much as people outside of Haines City are.

Bill Buldini

A lot of studying has given us a certain comfort level that we're dealing with smart and honest people.

Keith Trauner

He was just an honest, hard-working person and a great guy to be around.

Paul Rogers

To be honest, the campaign so far is more boring than dirty.

Gadi Baltiansky

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Henry Fielding

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

The ability to take a look at an individual and give an accurate, honest account of what you see.

John Herrera

I have a good relationship with my employees. My guys are just honest and hardworking.

Sean Moore

The president understands honest policy differences.

Condoleeza Rice

I told them that night that I was an honest man.

Raymond Thome

I was really pleased. I was very pleased to be honest. He could've done a lot more, but it was the first day.

Gerald Perry

I think it should be somewhere between five and eight to be quite honest because I think he needs to be in there and think about what he has done.

Roy Williamson

We are well placed to act as an honest broker between different stakeholders.

Lynne Brindley

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

Walter Raleigh, Sr.

I will be honest, I'm scared to death of what's going to happen to the eighth elementary.

Bob Becker

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

Wendell L. Willkie

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn't.

Don Williams, Jr

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

Josh Hartnett

To be honest, it's kind of been my dream for a long time to own my own salon.

Sarah Roth