Top 730 Honest Quotes

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?
Hunter S. Thompson
I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I’m more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can’t quite explain.
Melanie Chisholm
I like children; I like ’em, and I respect ’em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.
Lester Maddox
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
Mario Andretti
To be honest, my friends weren’t really as into making films as I was. But I convinced them all to make some zombie films with me.
Hideo Kojima
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don’t know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie’s story.
Uwe Boll
Children are the most honest critics. They will say ‘You’re funny’, but also ‘You’re pathetic – go away.’
Dylan Moran
He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
Earl Wilson
I’ve never been crazy. I’m a very good girl, to be honest. I don’t do anything to hurt anybody.
Leighton Meester
To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.
George Eads
Al Haymon, one thing I can say about him, is he is a very honest guy. Very honest. He don’t sell dreams, he makes dreams come true. And that’s what he did for me.
Adrien Broner
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
Iris Chang
I’m very bold and say what I feel. That doesn’t mean I ruffle feathers. It means I’m being honest.
Mya
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
Josh Hartnett
The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson
I have to be honest: I’ve memorized ‘Titanic.’
Sydney Sweeney
I write a lot of rhymes, but I don’t really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.
Swae Lee
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.
Donald Evans
I don’t watch goalkeepers, to be honest.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen
I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
Oliver Stone
This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
Pauline Kael
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politi

To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
Noel Gallagher
We’ve always tried to run a transparent and honest government.
Naveen Patnaik
I’m actually a pretty upfront, honest person; if there’s anything, I just confront it.
Farrah Abraham
I’ve had a lot of plastic surgery, and I’m completely honest about it.
Anitta
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France
It’s really important for women in the public eye to be open – these pop stars who don’t look, behave, speak like real women – that’s not fair on women. Being real, honest, authentic – too many women in the public eye are afraid to be authentic because they are afraid they will be judged.
Dawn O’Porter
I don’t really care what people think about me, to be honest. At. All.
Jalen Ramsey
Listen, I’m a super happy guy. But some days on the court – to be honest – I just didn’t have it emotionally. There was nothing in my tank.
Channing Frye
I love the Kerastase Hair Oils and the Philip Kingsley Elasticizer. They’re great for making my hair really soft, but to be honest, any cheap conditioner works. Just leave it on and let it soak in, and it really helps, whatever you use.
Abbey Clancy
I hope I don’t get driven to the point where, to be honest, I’m never satisfied. I hope there’s some part of me that can be content.
Ben Schwartz
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
Madeleine Albright
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn’t really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
Damon Hill
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison
I’ll be honest, when I first started pro wrestling, everybody else did clotheslines better than me. They did everything about pro wrestling better than me. But when it comes to fighting, getting nitty and gritty, I’m the man.
Matt Riddle
I’ve always known I could write. I have an ear for production and melody. It was just that, in those early years, I let everyone do it for me. To be honest, I was a little lazy!
Belinda Carlisle
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
Strom Thurmond
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu
I’m probably the most honest person you’ll ever meet – to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I’m sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven’t retained that information.
Ellen DeGeneres
I have flaws, but I’m honest.
Dani Alves
To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of ‘Big Issue’ sellers and a lot of people on the street. It really opened my eyes to the kind of life that they live and the options that are open for them – or not, actually.
Passenger
I just don’t think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn’t even think about it.
Randy Harrison
To be honest, after you’ve crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control – you might get some food if you’re lucky. You might see family if you’re lucky.
Victoria Pendleton
I probably get a bit more backlash in Australia than I do in America, to be honest. I was never invited to the Melbourne Comedy Festival because I was too gross, things like that. Which never happened in any other country.
Jim Jefferies
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what’s going on – about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
Olympia Dukakis
Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I’m nothing but honest.
Melanie Martinez
After 114 Test matches, 228 ODIs, and 78 T20 Internationals, it is time for others to take over. I have had my turn, and to be honest, I am tired.
AB de Villiers
So for me, you can’t control the media, you have to work with media to get your message out there and you just hope that there’s enough good honest reporting and people in the media that can get that job done.
Adam Goodes
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.
Amy Winehouse
Just to be honest, like I always am, I tip on my servic

Just to be honest, like I always am, I tip on my service. I think it’s a difference between good service and bad service, and just having a bad day.
LeSean McCoy
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
William Hazlitt
The electorate is starved for honest debate and for the good governance that follows from it.
Bret Weinstein
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
James Baldwin
I’ve always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
Zendaya
I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
Ricky Williams
I’ve got to be honest, there’s no pleasure when you’re working.
Dana Plato
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don’t need to do anything to Shakespeare.
Sam Heughan
Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
Patricia Velasquez