Honestest Quotes

#1. What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion
And that which we do with the dead,
Is the name of the honestest man in the nation:
What more of a man can be said?

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#3. Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.

Saul Bellow

#4. What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

David Mitchell

#5. That the reading of good books, is like the conversation with the honestest persons of the past age, who were the Authors of them, and even a studyed conversation, wherein they discover to us the best only of their thoughts. That eloquence hath forces & beauties which are incomparable.

Rene Descartes

#6. In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#7. I like everything old-fashioned," said Eleanor; "old-fashioned things are so much the honestest.

Anthony Trollope

#8. So you do read the papers. Usually kids your age need a bomb up their backsides, but it's good to see you've got your wits about you.

Cecelia Ahern

#9. Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.

Joan D. Chittister

#10. I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.

Katherine Jenkins

#11. I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

Waris Dirie

#12. I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.

Frances Bean Cobain

#13. I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.

Taylor Swift

#14. There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.

Hillary Jordan

#15. The lawn mower attends with defeaning shudder to the tonsure; a light odor of fresh hay intoxicates the air; the leveled grass finds again a bristling infancy; but the bite of the blades reveals unevenness, mangy clearings, yellow patches.

Italo Calvino

#16. He was horribly neglected, forgotten, pushed aside. It was almost as if Hollywood was so ashamed of what was done to him that they almost made him disappear.

Julie Garfield

#17. Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Theodor Adorno