Quotes About Honesty

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Beware of him that telleth tales.

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.

English proverb

Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run.

A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!

When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.