Quotes About Honesty

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you.

Men should be what they seem.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

He who never says "no" is no true man.