Honesty Quotes - Page 2
+1Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
- James Cardinal
+1The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
- George Christoph
+1Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
- Steve Landesberg
+1Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
- William Shakespeare
+1The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
- R.D. Laing
+1The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
- Mark Twain
+1Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
+1Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
- Kin Hubbard
+1With lies you may get ahead in the world – but you can never go back.
- Russian proverb
+1Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
- George Burns
+1Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
- Adrienne Rich
+1Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.
- Austin O’Malley
+1Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! – Marmion.
- Walter Scott
+1No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
- William Congreve
+1Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
- Oliver Wendell
+1A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
+1Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
- Mary MacCracken
+1Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
- Spencer Johnson
+1An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
- William Shakespeare
+1Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
+1One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain
+1No such thing as a man willing to be honest — that would be like a blind man willing to see.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
+1Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting readdress.
- Judith Martin
+1Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that’s capable of transporting you.
- Thomas Kretschmann
+1There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, “Yes,” you know he is a crook.
- Groucho Marx
+1Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Don Marquis
+1The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – “Let there be truth between us two forevermore.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
- Richard J. Needham
+1There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it’s wrong. It’s black or it’s white.
- John F. Dodge
+1The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- Arthur C. Clarke
+1Don’t worry so much about your self esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
- Laura Schlessinger
+1And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
- Ben E. King
+1If Cleveland Indians’ Wahoo is racist are not also Boston Celtics? naming a team for only part of the city?
- O Anna Niemus
+1Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
- Robert Brault
+1All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
- John Quincy Adams
+1Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
+1Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
- Lin Yutang
