Honesty quotes

“The world can be a cruel place to an honest man.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“Say what you mean, mean what you say. You know that if everybody followed that rule, there'd be a lot less trouble?”
Chris Cooper - Bob Cody

“- Lula Fortune: That Johnnie is one cleverdetective. You know how clever?
- Sailor Ripley: How clever?
- Lula Fortune: He told me once he could find an honest man in Washington.”
Laura Dern - Lula Fortune
Nicolas Cage - Sailor Ripley

- Monica Wright: Um, she's a hoe because she's sending her coochie through the mail! I mean, she's not saying "You're a nice guy, and I want to get to know you”. She's saying, "I wanna bone!”.
- Quincy McCall: At least she's honest.
- Monica Wright: Yeah... an honest tramp ass hoe!
Sanaa Lathan - Monica Wright
Omar Epps - Quincy McCall

“Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong.”
Liam Neeson - Godfrey de Ibelin

“We read in the newspapers that the after-war years were bad everywhere, that crime was increasing and that honest citizens were having a hard job to put the gangsters in jail. Well, in Germany the gangsters finally succeeded in putting the honest citizens in jail.”
Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

- Mitchell Goosen: Popeye, now there was a great man. Do you know why?
- Wiley: He never joined the Hairclub For Men?
- Mitchell Goosen: Wrong. Because his motto was: “I am what I am”. Do you think Popeye ever worried about what he wore just so he could get Olive Oil in the sack? I should say not, Dude. And do you know why?
- Wiley: He was... (continue)(continue reading)
Shane McDermott - Mitchell Goosen
Seth Green - Wiley

“Telling the truth can be dangerous business. Honest and popular don't go hand in hand. If you admit that you play the accordion no one will hire you in a rock 'n' roll band. But we can sing out hearts out. And if we're lucky, then no neighbors complain. Because life is the way we audition for God. Let us pray that we all get the job.”

Dustin Hoffman - Chuck Clarke
Warren Beatty - Lyle Rogers

“Look at that! That is a complete fucking fraud, and it looks a hundred percent real. It's the best work I've ever done in my life, because it's so honest.”

Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss

“- US Customs Agent: [seeing his equipment] And what's all this for?
- Philippe Petit: I'm going to hang a high wire between the World Trade Center Towers... And walk on it.
- US Customs Agent: Right. Good luck. Next!”
Joel Rinzler - US Customs Agent
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Philippe Petit

“Trust me, son, last thing you want to be is caught between two women. It's not fair to you and more importantly, it's not fair to the women. So, just be honest with the one that you like.”
Omari Hardwick - James 'Ghost' St. Patrick

“Having a family doesn’t mean that you stop being an individual. You know the best thing you can do for the people that depend on you? Be honest with them, even if it means setting them free.”
Justin Roiland - Mr. Meeseeks

“To be overly honest in a dishonest world is like plucking a chicken against the wind... you'll only wind up with a mouth full of feathers.”
Lou Jacobi - Moustache

“It turned out a lot of my friends didn’t care for honesty.”
Cherry Jones - Susan

“Your tongue is old, but sharp, Cicero. Be careful how you waggle it. One day it will cut off your head.”
Richard Burton - Mark Antony

“There's just gotta be a place up ahead where men ain't low-down and poker's played fair. If there weren't, what are all the songs about? I'll see y'all there. And we can sing together and shake our heads over all the meanness in the used-to-be.”

Tim Blake Nelson - Buster Scruggs

“You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirtystreet. For what? For nothing. For a tin star.”
Lon Chaney Jr. - Martin Howe

“These Wall Street guys, you see what they did to this country? They stole from everybody. Hard working people lost everything, and not one of these douchebags went to jail.”
Jennifer Lopez - Ramona

“- Donald Horner: So am I different to what you expected?
- Emily Walters: Hmm. Perhaps. You seem...
- Donald Horner: Go on.
- Emily Walters: Cleaner.
- Donald Horner: That's honest.”
Brendan Gleeson - Donald Horner
Diane Keaton - Emily Walters

“- Burditt: Can I give you some advice? You need to shut the fuck up.
- Molly Patel: Excuse me?
- Burditt: If you hear something you don’t agree with, you have to resist the urge to give your opinion.
- Molly Patel: I will not be marginalized by the iron fist of white privilege that pervades this work environment.
- Burditt: I am not trying to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Max Casella - Burditt
Mindy Kaling - Molly Patel

“I know Jesus was the first socialist, etc. So what? The true priests are those of us who defend the innocent, the enemies of injustice, hypocrisy and filthy lucre.”
Fernando Rey - Don Lope

“- Maney Gault: You came all the way up to the house, what changed your mind?
- Frank Hamer: I don't know, maybe seeing you move like you're 85.
- Maney Gault: Well, that honest. Maybe a little too honest.”
Woody Harrelson - Maney Gault
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer

“A ninja is honest and good. His mind, body and spirit are one. He has self-control. He has discipline.”
Michael Treanor - Rocky

“- Will Henry: Do you know one of the first things I liked about you was?
- Diane: What?
- Will Henry: Your tits.
- Diane: That's so nice. Please touch them.”
Jemaine Clement - Will Henry
Regina Hall - Diane

“I'm a big jazz fan and I really liked what she was doing. I thought it was unique, I thought it was edgy. And sincere.”

Yasiin Bey - Yasiin Bey