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Quotes About Honesty

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.
~ Maxim Gorky
Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
~ Patricia Heaton
If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.
~ Paul Gascoigne
You can either be a con or a man—you can't be both.
~ Peter Burke
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
~ Plutarch
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women love an honest man.
~ Rita Ora
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
~ Albert Einstein
So upright Quakers please both man and God.
~ Alexander Pope
Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
~ Aristophanes
In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."
~ Ben Bradlee
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
~ Ben Jonson
An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.
~ Blu Cantrell
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
~ C. S. Lewis
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
~ Lillian Hellman
Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
~ Louis L'Amour
Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.
~ Mae West
Never ask a man where he has been.
~ Mae West
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
~ Martial