The Best Quotes on Honesty
By Susan300, published Apr 13, 2007
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Honesty is the best policy, and many famous people have given their opinions on honesty. Here are some of the best quotes on honesty...The 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
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
--William Shakespeare
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
--Kin Hubbard
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
--Samuel Butler
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
--Cicero
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
--Don Marquis
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
--Lois McMaster Bujold
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
--Mark Twain
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
--Mary MacCracken
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
--Pamela Ribon
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
--William Shakespeare
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
--Thomas Sowell
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
--Thomas Jefferson
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
--Mark Twain
Honesty is the best image.
--Tom Wilson
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
--Walter Anderson
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
--Euripides
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
--William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
--William Shakespeare
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
--Sam Rayburn
When in doubt, tell the truth.
--Mark Twain
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