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Quotes About Honesty

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
~ Phil Donahue
If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Let man be true and every god a liar.
~ Samuel Butler
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
~ Thomas Otway
We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
~ Will Rogers
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
~ William Bourke Cockran
The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
~ William Gilmore Simms
An honest man is respected by all parties.
~ William Hazlitt
Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever
~ William Shakespeare
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
~ William Shakespeare
If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
~ Jack Nicholson
I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.
~ Alan Dershowitz
I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?
~ Alan Vega
A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
~ Alec Douglas-Home
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
~ Alexander Pope
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
~ Ann Landers
I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.
~ Anson Mount
Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.
~ Russell Conwell
As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
~ Samuel Johnson
Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
~ Samuel Johnson
We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.
~ Sidney Sheldon
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
~ Washington Irving
No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman