Quotes About Honesty

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

No blame should attach to telling the truth.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

If the word frankly or sincerely is not uttered in the first ten minutes-or let us speak openly-then you are not in the presence of a genuine businessman, and he will certainly go bankrupt.

If I ever said in grief or pride, I tired of honest things, I lied.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before.