Quotes About Honesty

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

A government or an administration, who means and acts honestly, has nothing to fear, and consequently has nothing to conceal;

Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from sinister views, or littleness of soul, lends unseen his hand to injure it, contrives a wound it will never be in his power to heal.

that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and it is of little consequence, in the conclusion, whether men deceive themselves, or submit, by a kind of mutual consent, to the impositions of each other.

False testimony is always good against itself.

Necredinta nu consta in a crede sau in a nu crede, ci in faptul de a marturisi credinta in ceea ce nu crezi.

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A firm bargain and a right reckoning make long friends.

Yalan söylemek kolayd?r ama devam ettirmek zordur.

Of more worth is one honeset man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It

They were all living right where they said they would to be.

Alcohol makes you less inhibited.' I said, 'I'm not inhibited, I just don't like you enough to want to do anything with you.' I guess alcohol makes you more honest too.

Marriages are fragile. When you boil off all the nonsense, what they amount to is a promise.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

His laughter was an insulting bray; it crowded and pushed the air ahead of it. He said many true words about other men. I never heard him say a kind one.19

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth — anonymously and posthumously.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

Great management is about character, not technique.