Honesty Quotes

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Honesty Quotes & Sayings


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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
- Groucho Marx


A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
- Edgar J. Mohn


Honesty is something you can't wear out.
- Waylon Jennings


Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
- Oliver Wendell


Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
- Austin O'Malley


What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
- Mahatma Gandhi


A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.
- Unknown


Party honesty is party expedience.
- Grover Cleveland


The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright


There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind
- William Shakespeare


A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.
- Jean de la Bruyere


Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
- Emily Dickinson


Honesty is the best image.
- Ziggy


Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb


If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain


Honesty is the soul of business.
- Dutch Proverb


The fastest way to lose what we call our good character is to lose our honesty.
- Unknown


Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
- Josh Billings


To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
- Lucan


Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson


If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
- Frank McKinney 'Kin' Hubbard


Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
- Stephen Vincent Benet


There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.
- Groucho Marx


The fastest way to lose what we call our good character is to lose our honesty.
- Unknown


Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.
- Lemuel K. Washburn


To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
- Lucan


Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure.
- Proverb


Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
- Mark Twain


People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
- Richard J. Needham


With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty, but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
- Arthur Schopenhauer


All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for one loaf of bread.
- Josh Billings


Honesty is like an icicle, if once it melts that is the end of it.
- American Proverb


Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
- Barnabe Rich


Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
- Kin Hubbard


Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.
- Richard Whately


Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
- Barnabe Rich


There are no degrees of honesty.
- Unknown


Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in a foul oyster.
- William Shakespeare


Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion.
- Jonathan Swift


Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy.
- Unknown


If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.
- Proverb


Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Don Marquis


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