Quotes

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-Oliver Wendell

Party honesty is party expedience.
-Grover Cleveland

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
-Emily Dickinson

Honesty is the soul of business.
-Dutch Proverb

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
-Thomas Jefferson

There'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

Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure.
-Proverb

All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for one loaf of bread.
-Josh Billings

Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.
-Richard Whately

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion.
-Jonathan Swift

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
-Groucho Marx

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
-Austin O'Malley

The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

Honesty is the best image.
-Ziggy

The fastest way to lose what we call our good character is to lose our honesty.
-Anonymous Author

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The fastest way to lose what we call our good character is to lose our honesty.
-Anonymous Author

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
-Mark Twain

Honesty is like an icicle, if once it melts that is the end of it.
-American Proverb

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
-Barnabe Rich

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy.
-Anonymous Author

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
-Edgar J. Mohn

What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
-Mahatma Gandhi

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind
-William Shakespeare

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
-Slovenian Proverb

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

Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
-Frank McKinney 'Kin' Hubbard

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.
-Lemuel K. Washburn

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
-Richard J. Needham

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
-Barnabe Rich

There are no degrees of honesty.
-Anonymous Author

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.
-Proverb

Honesty is something you can't wear out.
-Waylon Jennings

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.
-Anonymous Author

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.
-Jean de la Bruyere

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
-Lucan

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
-Stephen Vincent Benet

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
-Lucan

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty, but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
-Kin Hubbard

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in a foul oyster.
-William Shakespeare

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
-Don Marquis