Quotes About Honesty

Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple...

What flatterers say, try to make true.

I hate careless flattery — the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

[F]lattery is the prolific parent of falsehood.

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

Occasionally you hear a man boasting how good his credit is, but, as a matter of fact, no man's credit is as good as his money.

A friend may smile and bid you hail, Yet wish you with the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day. But when the time comes that man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.

Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong, when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

'T is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

The face is more honest than the mouth will ever be.

Fire and pride cannot be hid.

A plain and simple answer for This riddle's what we wish: Does fishing make men liars, or Do only liars fish?

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead.

Love, fire, a cough, the itch, and gout are not to be concealed.

I am looking your heart in the eye!

Who lies for you will lie against you.

A half truth is a whole lie.