Quotes About Honesty

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

Only men of character are trusted.

The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men