Quotes About Honesty

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'