Honest Quotes - Page 11

• It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Fake People, Thinking, World

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• Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Mistake, Office

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. [35]

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• To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people's aloneness.

  Rajneesh

  People, Individuality, Doe

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• Man is his own star, and the soul that can, render an honest and a perfect man,
  Commands all light, all influence, all fate: nothing to him falls early or too late.
  Our acts are angels are, for good or ill: our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

  John Fletcher

  Stars, Fall, Angel

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1840). “The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher”, p.499

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• Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Luck, Merit

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• I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

  Jean Rostand

  Lying, Book, Reality

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with you, I have a tough time keeping weight on.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Time Keeping, Tough Times

  Interview with Patrick Mauro, www.ign.com. July, 2005.

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• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

  John Lyly

  Inspirational, Honesty, Life Is

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• All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Use, Made

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7394, Delphi Classics

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• I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Suffering, Poison

  Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.357, Univ of California Press

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• Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men, Every Man

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

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• The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Liars, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• ....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men, Honest Man

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Able, Mask

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.18, Purdue University Press

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• Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Truth, Honesty, People

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

  Walter Raleigh

  Wise, Honesty, Safety

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• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  'Apophthegms' p. 219

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• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Annoyed, Purpose

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• No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1915). “The essays of Michael, lord of Montaigne”

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• 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.

  David Hume

  Art, Honesty, Science

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• I can always get along with an honest friend.

  Harry S. Truman

  Honesty, Honest Friends, I Can

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• Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Honesty, Believe

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• An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.

  John Mellencamp

  Honesty, Men, Mind

  Song: Minutes To Memories, Album: Scarecrow

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• One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Honesty, Errors, Mankind

  "History of the Republic of the United States of America".

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