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Quotes About Honesty

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.
~ Robert Jordan
A man should never give promises in bed.
~ Robert Jordan
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
~ H. L. Mencken
A man talking fast has something to hide.
~ Haim Bar-Lev
Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.
~ Helen Fisher
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
~ Henry Fielding
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
~ Herman Melville
A man can be honest in any sort of skin.
~ Herman Melville
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
~ Hilaire Belloc
...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.
~ Homer
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
~ Honore de Balzac
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
~ Horace
You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.
~ Howard Dean
A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
~ Idries Shah
Give me an honest con man any day.
~ J. D. Salinger
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
~ Jack Kerouac
I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.
~ James Hird
He's true to God who's true to man.
~ James Russell Lowell