“Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?”
Demi Lovato (1992) American singer, songwriter, actress, and author
Together
Lyrics, Unbroken (2011)
“Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.”
Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83
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Alexei Maxim Russell (1976) Canadian writer
from Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Hardball with Chris Matthews (15 July 2002), as quoted in The World According to Trump (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 23
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Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Said to Enver Hoxha, on his visit to China in 1956, as quoted in Hoxha's (1986) The Artful Albanian, (Chatto & Windus, London), ISBN 0701129700
“There are few honest women who are not tired of what they do.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il y a peu d'honnêtes femmes qui ne soient lasses de leur métier.
Maxim 367.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: "Why Are They Laughing In Those Cages?", in Travels in Hyperreality : Essays (1986), Ch. III : The Gods of the Underworld, p. 122
Context: The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed.
Context: The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he does not repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity and courage in an event bigger than he was.
Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser
On penalizing abortion in 1936. Quoted in Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936. Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 1993
“If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.”
Jack Nicholson (1937) American actor, film director, producer, and writer
"'I used to feel irresistible to women. Not any more': The melancholy confessions of Jack Nicholson", dailymail.co.uk, 31 January 2011.
“You can't say anything honest to women, they have minds like the FBI.”
John Updike book Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest (1990)