An Honest Woman Quotes

#1. An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

Christopher Fry

#3. God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

Euripides

#5. Religion
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural,
And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

Christopher Fry

#6. There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an honest woman, I don't agree with you. There are some people who bring dull minds to their reading - and them blame the writer for it. I say no more.

Wilkie Collins

#8. I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong ... not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

Winston Churchill

#9. I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.

Robert Graves

#10. You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#11. I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

Caitlyn Jenner

#12. There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

Giacomo Casanova

#13. There is something pure and honest in the way a man treats a woman when he thinks she isn't aware. It shows the kind of man he truly is.

Dannika Dark

#14. The difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don't have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair.

Scott Lynch

#15. I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.

Rachel Kushner

#16. If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

Richard J. Codey

#17. Because whenever a woman kills her child, every other mother - at least, every one who's honest with herself - has a flash of sympathy. Not empathy. They don't want to have done it, cannot imagine doing it. But they know.

Laura Lippman

#18. Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm being honest.

Larry David

#19. Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#20. With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

Honore De Balzac

#21. Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating.

Sheryl Sandberg

#22. I'm an angel of death. I don't need night school, woman. You should just give up on this detective shit and start killing people for a living. It's simple, honest work, and you ain't got the brains for anything else.

Ilona Andrews

#23. I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

Tracy McMillan

#24. You're a crazy woman, looking for an honest liar.
Kyra to Rey (Reyes)

Ava Gray

#25. EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

Ambrose Bierce