Quotes About Honesty

A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.

God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

No man should be angry with what is true.

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

I like honest men of all colors.

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.

A real man has no tougher judge than himself.

Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.