Quotes About Honesty

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.

Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

As you make your bed you must lie in it.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

Cutting honest throats by whispers.

As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."

There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Open confession is good for the soul.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

The only incorruptible thing about us.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.