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Quotes About Honesty

You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman.
~ Scott Glenn
Men's language is as their lives.
~ Seneca the Younger
Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.
~ Shulamith Firestone
No honest man will argue on every side
~ Sophocles
Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey
~ Steve Martin
When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.
~ Theodor Haecker
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.
~ W. C. Fields
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
~ William Shakespeare
If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.
~ William Shakespeare
No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.
~ H. L. Mencken
Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
~ Henrik Ibsen
There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.
~ Henry Latham Doherty
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
~ Isaac Barrow
Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.
~ Jim Bishop
I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
~ John Adams
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
~ John Lyly
The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
~ Josh Billings
Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.
~ Chuck Grassley
I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.
~ Cody Johnson
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
~ Confucius