The Best Quotes on Honesty

Honesty is the best policy, and many famous people have given their opinions on honesty. Here are some of the best quotes on honesty...

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
--Arthur C. Clarke

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
--William Shakespeare

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

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
--Samuel Butler

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
--Cicero

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

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
--Lois McMaster Bujold

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
--Mark Twain

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
--Mary MacCracken

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
--Pamela Ribon

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
--William Shakespeare

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

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
--Thomas Jefferson

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

Honesty is the best image.
--Tom Wilson

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
--Walter Anderson

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

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
--William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
--William Shakespeare

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
--Sam Rayburn

When in doubt, tell the truth.
--Mark Twain

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