Quotes About Honesty

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

I think I am a moral man.

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.