Pastoral Resources

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

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.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.