Honesty Quotes

58 quotations about Honesty
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant · Honesty
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Steve Landesberg · Honesty
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
John Lyly · Honesty
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
Sidney Madwed · Honesty
Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis · Honesty
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis · Honesty
There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
Groucho Marx · Honesty
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau · Honesty
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Richard J. Needham · Honesty
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Thomas Otway · Honesty
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Ovid · Honesty
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid · Honesty
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato · Honesty
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope · Honesty
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
French Proverb · Honesty
A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
Scottish Proverb · Honesty
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
Sir Walter Raleigh · Honesty
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin · Honesty
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller · Honesty
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare · Honesty
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare · Honesty
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles · Honesty
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Leslie Stephen · Honesty
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau · Honesty
Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
Mark Twain · Honesty

Authors on Honesty

James Allen Leah Arendt Stephen Vincent Benet Bible Leon Blum Merry Browne William Jennings Bryan George Burns Robert Burns Thomas Carlyle George Chapman Chilo Winston Churchill Oliver Cromwell Bob Dylan Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Fielding F. Scott Fitzgerald Benjamin Franklin French Proverb