The problem is that even as you reveal the mysteries in your past, you are accumulating them in the present; complete honesty is the stuff of post-mortem, not autobiography.
Andrew Solomon
Honesty is love.
Andy Dunn
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Anthony Trollope
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
Ben Folds
Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin
Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.
Beppe Grillo
Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
Brooke Shields
Honesty is all you need.
Cass Elliot
Honesty is a foundation, and it's usually a solid foundation. Even if I do get in trouble for what I said, it's something that I can stand on.
Charlamagne tha God
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire
No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.
Charles Comiskey
You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.
Christopher Walken
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
Dan Ariely
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
Dave Van Ronk
Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.
David Shields
That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. There's nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It's excruciatingly embarrassing.
David Thewlis
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
David Whyte
Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.
I'm such a fan of actors and also enjoy watching them work so that I can help their acting in any way I can. Sometimes it walks a tricky line because you want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me. I'm a big Woody Allen and Spike Lee fan, and I find their films to be very honest.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Party honesty is party expediency.
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
Honesty is the door to finding a love that brings an identity found only in Christ.
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.
Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.
People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Self-deprecating humor and brutal honesty is a really freeing thing.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
