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The Great Gatsby
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Honest Quotes

I don’t really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you.

– Jimmy Page

To be honest, sometimes I’m horrified because you don’t really know what you look like. If I really knew what I was doing on-screen, I would try to stop doing it.

– Jennifer Coolidge

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

– Isabella Rossellini

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

– Joyce Brothers

Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

– Jules Verne

I’ve always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That’s what I’ve always done.

– Jeff Koons

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first – if you’re not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines – ones that are no longer used.

– Issey Miyake

I’ve had five weddings but if I’m really honest and if I count significant de factos… I’ve had nine husbands… which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I’m 65 it’s not so bad.

– Jacki Weaver

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

– Joel Osteen

To be honest, most of the time you leave the theater, and you’re like, ‘Well, that was nice, but where did I park?’ It doesn’t really stick with you.

– Joe Carnahan

If I’m really honest, I’m not a huge fan of scary films.

– Imogen Poots

I’m at the point, frankly, where I’d rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max’s book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is.

– Julie Klausner

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn’t deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

– John Ciardi

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

– Jimmy Carter

In many ways, being honest about ‘Huckleberry Finn’ goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

– Jane Smiley

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

– Jean Rostand

I’m not one who likes to be honored, to be honest with you. That’s never been who I am.

– Jerry West

I’m very honest – brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

– Indra Nooyi

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

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it’s a bit of a copout.

– Jo Brand

I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one’s worth in the market. Mine was zero.

– Ingmar Bergman

Let’s be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn’t even concur with that exception.

– Howard Jacobson

I know that Liz Meriwether likes to keep things as honest and complicated as life can be, which is really fun for all of us.

– Hannah Simone

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

– Julian Barnes

If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.

– John Bytheway

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

– Jasper Fforde

I think my biggest appeal for fans is probably the fact that I’m honest. I’m up front about who I am. I’m a little naughty. I have a naughty side and everybody knows that. But I know when to use that and when not to.

– John Barrowman

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

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

– Immanuel Kant

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

– James E. Faust

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