Quotes About Honesty

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.

A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

Few men are wantonly wicked.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.