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Honesty Quotes
"I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it."
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"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest."
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"Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists."
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"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
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"Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up."
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"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."
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"Party honesty is party expediency."
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"Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon."
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"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully."
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"We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us."
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"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
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"The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
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"That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty."
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"Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men."
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"I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest."
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"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
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"Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars."
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"If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within."
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"He doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. But Meursault, contrary to appearances, doesn't want to make life simpler. He says what he is, he refuses to hide his feelings and society immediately feels threatened."
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"The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more."
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