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Quotes About Honesty

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
~ Davy Crockett
Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.
~ Nathan Eldon Tanner
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Good appearance doesn't make a real man. The important thing is to do your best and keep your promises. A real man should show his faith in actions (rather) than words.
~ Yunho
Man is bound to lie about himself
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.
~ Maureen O'Hara
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
~ Nathanael Emmons
I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
~ Joseph de Maistre
In an honest man there is always something of a child.
~ Plato
Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.
~ Susanna Centlivre
A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.
~ Fred Dibnah
It's a woman's right to know a man's intentions upfront. Because, once you get emotionally attached to a man and you sleep with him, it's too late.
~ Steve Harvey
The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.
~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
~ Anthony Trollope
Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
~ Euripides
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
~ Robert Burns
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
~ Sonny Bono
Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.
~ Sam Rayburn
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
~ Walter Raleigh
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
~ Khalil Gibran
Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.
~ Debra Messing
I think it's better if blokes can admit that they can have crushes on other blokes. I've probably had crushes but never really sexual crushes on men.
~ Graham Coxon