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| Alla lever vi vårt liv bara en gång; om vi är ärliga, så räcker det. | Greta Garbo (1905-1990) |
| De flesta av oss är ärliga hela tiden och alla är ärliga den mesta av tiden. | Charles McC Mathias, Jr. |
| Det bästa sättet att leva med heder i den här världen är att vara den man låtsas vara. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Ju ärligare man, desto sämre tur. | John Ray (1627-1705) |
| Vad är värdighet utan ärlighet? | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Ärlighet varar längst | Ludvig Holberg |
| Ärlighet är den bästa imagen. | Ziggy |
| Ärlighet är lika sällsynt som en man utan självömkan. | Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943) |
| Ärligt folk gör oftast narr av sig själva, | Arne Garborg (1851-1924) |
| Tro ikke dine venner, når de beder dig sige din ærlige mening. Alt, hvad de ønsker, er at blive bestyrket i den mening, de har om sig selv. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| At være fuldkommen ærlig overfor sig selv er en god øvelse | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time | Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) |
| Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. | Eric Zorn |
| Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest | Gregory Nunn |
| Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple | Jimmy Buffett (1946-) |
| Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. | Lemuel K. Washburn |
| Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche. | Lesley Conger |
| 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 (1893-1977) |
| 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 |
| 'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered | Susannah Centlivre |
| Honesty is something you can't wear out | Waylon Jennings (1937-2002) |
| In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. | Wendell L. Willkie (1892-1944) |
| Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it | African-American Proverb |
| Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; Steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man | Arab Proverb |
| I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest. | Elizabeth Hurley (1965-) |
| Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough | Greta Garbo (1905-1990) |
| Fools, through false shame, conceal their open wounds. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. | Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001) |
| No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| Dare to be honest and fear no labor. | Robert Burns (1759-1796) |
| Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke | William Feather (1889-1981) |
| Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. | Spencer Johnson |
| If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to | Proverb |
| Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. | Jim Morrison (1943-1971) |
| Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche. | Lesley Conger |
| Honest people are easily deceived | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. | Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001) |
| 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 (1893-1977) |
| We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| I am a lie who always speaks the truth. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| Ring out the false, ring in the true. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there | Chinese Proverbs |
| I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me. | Clay Aiken (1978-) |
| Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself. | David Bain |
| Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. | Donald Marquis (1878-1937) |
| A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn’t. | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| Honesty is the soul of business | Dutch Proverb |
| I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am. | Eminem (1972-) |
| Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) |
| Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest | Gregory Nunn |
| The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| An honest man nearly always thinks justly. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them. | Joseph Story (1779-) |
| Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Honesty is praised and starves | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps they’re bad, it’s only evident they’re codes. Mores bind the race. Coaction then occurs. Thought and motion in accord. A oneness then of purpose and survival so results. But now against that code there is transgression. And so because the code was held, whatever code it was, and man sought comfort in man’s company, he held back his deed and so entered then the bourne in which no being laughs or has a freedom in his heart. | L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) |
| If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. | Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) |
| Honesty: The best of all the lost arts | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Tell the truth or trump - but get the trick | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| An honest man's word is as good as his bond. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| Honesty is the best policy. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| While it pays to be honest you are often a long time collecting | Proverb |
| He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth. | Proverb |
| It pays to be honest, but it's slow pay | Proverb |
| He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot | Proverb |
| Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| 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. | General Robert E. Lee (1918-1870) |
| I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
| A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back. | Sasha Azevedo |
| I will not lay down and put this narrow, stubborn agenda ahead of our families, ahead of our Constitution, and ahead of our values. We are a proud nation that respects the rights of the minority, values the separation of church and state, and believes in honesty and personal responsibility. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| No honest man will argue on every side | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. | Spencer Johnson |
| The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm | Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) |
| Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. | Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| A very honest woman but something given to lie | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |