Top 730 Honest Quotes

Who would I think is the favorite? Well, to be honest, I think the top players. We are all very close, very equal.
Garbine Muguruza
I’m nothing if not honest.
Richard Dreyfuss
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
David McCullough
To be honest, I think I am making normal games targeted towards normal people. But ultimately when I release those normal games, weird people find them to be weird games and enjoy them. Which probably means there’s something wrong with me.
Yoko Taro
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
To be honest, ‘Ready Steady Cook’ was a great opportunity, but I did compromise myself. I was stood there quizzing chefs on what they were doing when I knew exactly what they were doing and why.
Ainsley Harriott
All I will say is that I’m playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I’ve played before.
Sophie Marceau
I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you’re doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
Poo Bear
That’s the compliment I get most often – ‘You guys are so honest.’
Nikki Glaser
Anne Boleyn isn’t a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn’t a people pleaser. She’s ambitious and manipulative, but she’s honest. I’m biased, but I don’t think a woman who has said ‘no’ to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.
Lydia Leonard
Music is a diary. Sometimes people make music as if no one’s going to hear it, as if they can just be completely honest. Things are a lot more acceptable said in a song than it would be in person. Art excuses a lot of things.
Giveon
I’m trying to keep my personal life personal. It’s very hard for me because I’m a very honest person.
David Arquette
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn’t seem to come with them.
Billy Bragg
To be honest, I’ve never been interested in how many games I’ve done and seen. It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. All I know is I’m eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
Vin Scully
If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.
Janet Reno
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Robert Wyatt
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
Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.
The Weeknd
People are still willing to do an honest day’s work. The trouble is they want a week’s pay for it.
Joey Adams
If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it’s all smoke and mirrors.
Noel Gallagher
I feel that if I’m going through something, I’m sure someone else is, too. I try to be as honest with myself and others as I can be.
Kourtney Kardashian
To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it’s the biggest thrill of your life.
Keala Settle
I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
Robert H. Schuller
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
Edmond de Goncourt
For the life of me, I don’t understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
Dianne Feinstein
Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.
Sarah Koenig
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
Emily Carr
When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the

When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it’s the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.
Dua Lipa
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
Philip Sidney
To be honest, whatever troubles I’ve had, I’ve also gotten the opportunities to do things.
Tim Burton
I surf; I skateboard. I’m from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. And to be honest with you, I never really thought of myself as one.
Paul Walker
I wasn’t really big enough when I was filming at school for it to affect anyone too much, but I think my friends that were consistently in my videos during that time definitely got attention that they weren’t anticipating. I’m not quite sure how they felt about it to be honest.
Emma Chamberlain
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
Sam Houston
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.
Frank Sinatra
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth
The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.
Cardi B
The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
When you’re just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.
John Mayer
To be honest, I don’t think I’m the best role model in the world. I’m pretty immature sometimes.
Louis Tomlinson
Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won’t get much out of him, but with that other guy I can’t keep what I’ve got.
Lewis B. Hershey
The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
Dennis Prager
I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.
Davy Crockett
Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.
Emmeline Pankhurst
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Ovid
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
James Bryant Conant
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Tennessee Williams
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
Paul Robeson
For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It’s very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.
Marcel Wanders
The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade – and be open and honest. That’s the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.
Vivek Wadhwa
I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
Mary Ellen Mark
If there is one thing I have learnt, it’s that you have to be honest.
Tana Ramsay
The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn’t?
Mark Manson
To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.
Andy Murray
To be honest, I’ve never been a huge fan of American soap operas. I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.
Julie Gonzalo
To be quite honest with you, a lot of people don’t realize that Nikki Sixx and I did Brides of Destruction after the lawsuit.
John Corabi
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.
Ace Frehley
I’m a big Batman fan; to be honest, to be a part of any superhero movie would really fulfill all of my childhood fantasies. If I could get beaten up by Batman, and just be part of the franchise, even getting kicked through a window would be great!
Ray Park
My husband keeps me really honest.
Cate Blanchett
I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be hone

I’d always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I’ve never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I’m not, like, a brat.
Abbey Clancy
One thing about being a stand-up is it’s a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You’re the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It’s such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.
Nick Cannon
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
Charles Caleb Colton
It’s a repressive society where you can’t be horrible, I’m not horrible, they made me horrible, I’m just honest.
John Lydon
Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you’ll achieve it.
Emraan Hashmi
A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it’s in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
Ivan Reitman
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young