Quotes About Honesty

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn't aware of his fear.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

I didn't invent hot water. But when I approach menswear, I do it in a very honest way. And my menswear and womenswear are very similar, in the sense that I put men in leggings and lace shirts.

Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

John is a man of his word. And so am I.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.