Quotes About Honesty

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

I am a man of my word.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Hide nothing from your confessor... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.

I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.

I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.