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Quotes About Honesty

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
~ Aravind Adiga
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
~ Augustus Hare
The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
~ Ben Jonson
No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
~ Ben Jonson
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
~ Benjamin Franklin
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
~ Benjamin Franklin
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
~ Bill Vaughan
We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.
~ Bob Hawke
However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.
~ Brandon Sanderson
In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.
~ Carlos Mencia
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.
~ Charles M. Schwab
Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.
~ David Gemmell
They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
~ Don McLean
A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.
~ Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Pray the real live forever man. Pray the fakes get exposed.
~ Drake
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox