Quotes of Trustworthy - somelinesforyou

“ You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. ”

- Emily Carr

“ I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Nothing but what astonishes is true. ”

- Edward Young

“ We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful. ”

- Hellmut Walters

“ To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true. ”

- Walter Scott

“ For everyone to think Republicans are just on autopilot is not true. ”

- Larry Craig

“ I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is. ”

- Colin Hay

“ It's only words... unless they're true. ”

- David Mamet

“ Antony is so honest and so powerful, and that is what makes a true star. I've seen audiences twitch when he performs, because some people get very uncomfortable with such raw vulnerability. But I love it. It's what we need. ”

- Boy George

“ When a friend, then, indulges in the joy of unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself. He implores him, it is true, not to tell a soul; but if such a condition were taken absolutely literally, it would at once cut off the flow of these joys at their very source… ”

- Alessandro Manzoni

“ If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true. ”

- Ken Jennings

“ After all, the true seeing is within. ”

- George Eliot

“ It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue! ”

- Robert Burns

“ The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals. ”

- Edmond de Goncourt

“ We're just going to make them more honest out here. ”

- Gene Brown

“ I am myself indifferent honest. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ May thy life be long and happy, Thy cares and sorrows few; And the many friends around thee Prove faithful, fond and true. ”

- Unknown

“ To be persuasive, one must be believable.To be believable, we must be credible.To be credible, we must be truthful. ”

- Edward R. Murrow

“ That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist. ”

- Anna Friel

“ To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around. ”

- Robbie Williams

“ Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. ”

- Alexander Woollcott

“ This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ That which is cannot be true. ”

- Herbert Marcuse

“ I let her alone and when she got that finished she left me alone. We trusted each other. ”

- Virgil Thomson

“ The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ”

- Thomas Huxley

“ The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. ”

- Frederick Douglass
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