Quotes About Honesty

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.