"In all honesty, we are teachers [one of her sisters is a teacher too] and pay is getting less and less each year.
Rafael Nadal's searing honesty has always sustained him in troubled times and, while the Spaniard is perhaps a couple of defeats short of a crisis, he admits this summer has not been one of his best.
"It's very disappointing for me and my family how these things have been communicated and handled in terms of honesty and respect but I guess that's the football business".
It's pleasant to fantasise that if Mirvish hadn't died in 2007, the building would never have been sold for scrap – but Ed's defining characteristic wasn't so much honesty as a hard nose.
Fairness, honesty and suitability of policy must be at the heart of next week's budget so that the document does not tank like last year's, the opposition leader Bill Shorten was set to argue in his major pre-budget address.
"I know it was a tough decision for Dick to make, but he felt that he couldn't commit to the intense rigours of club management on a longer-term basis and we respect his honesty.
He is neither "sane" nor "insane" but a fellow human being who speaks to us with courage and honesty.
But Noi said Daodu was paying the price for his honesty: "He's the victim of a flawed, outdated process, which dehumanises and takes common sense out of the equation.
Then there are the moral virtues – truthfulness, honesty, developing a sense of justice, that type of thing.
In his plays and short stories he excavated the human condition with more tenderness and honesty than anybody else I've read.
Related: Telegraph's Peter Oborne resigns, saying HSBC coverage a 'fraud on readers' But there is some honesty in its editorial: that it is "the champion of British business and enterprise", for example.
