Quotes About Honesty

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

He who is quick to borrow is slow to pay.

You do not have to be bashful with God as some people are, in the belief that they are being humble. It