A Quote by Salman Rushdie

With death comes honesty.

Salman Rushdie

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Death Honesty

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Salman Rushdie
Indian - Novelist
Born: June 19, 1947

The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

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We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they're just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it.

Tim McGraw

The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.

Corliss Lamont

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Brooke Shields

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Marianne Williamson

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.

Shane Black

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Russell Simmons

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

Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

John de Ruiter

Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

Eddie Izzard

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Thomas Jefferson

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Bob Dylan

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

Kapil Dev

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.