Quotes about Honesty
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
— Euripides
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
— Francois Rabelais
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.
— GK Chesterton
Few men are wantonly wicked.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
— Mark Twain
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
— Mark Twain
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
— Pierre Corneille
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
— Henry David Thoreau
Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
— Henry Ward Beecher