Quotes About Honesty

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

I'm a man of my word.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.