Honester Quotes & Sayings

As I turned around, looking directly at me was what appeared to be an Indian Chief with all of the regality and trimmings with a full headdress. He was my height about 5'11" and his face was thin and worn, obviously he seemed very old, yet vaguely familiar. — John V. Panella

The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world. — Bayard Taylor

steadier, pleasanter, honester, smarter young fellow I never had in this stable. I can trust his word and I can trust his work; — Anna Sewell

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew. — Anthony Trollope

I was highly aware, in writing [the book]ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance. — Emma Donoghue

It's you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I'm going to take care of everything else. — Melissa Cutler

One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion ... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality. — Charles Eliot Norton

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth. — William Hazlitt

When you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real ... — John Geddes

Life is never free of contradictions. — Manmohan Singh

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression
a kind of rudimentary theater
as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means. — John Barth

He's my breath of fresh air, and I feel like I can't breathe anymore when he's not around. — J.M. Darhower

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself - you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there. — Thomas Hughes

Violet could see the fear in his eyes. "I have to tell you, the idea of losing you scares the hell out of me, Vi. You know that, don't you?" He sighed heavily, still holding on to her as he stared back at her. "Promise me, no more gang fights. — Kimberly Derting

The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I've traveled and I've seen it, and I want to be able to go home at night and see my daughter. I want to be there for her first day of school and her school recital. Honestly, television is what offers me that. — Sarah Michelle Gellar

the more precisely a particle's position is measured, the less precisely the particle's momentum can be known. — Jared Hendricks

Marry, thou oughtest not to let thy horse wear a cloak, when honester men than thou go in their hose and doublets. — William Shakespeare

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. — William Shakespeare