Honesty Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
William Shakespeare,
Mark Twain
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| 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 |
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| The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. |
| - Aristotle |
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| A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Always tell the truth. If you can't always tell the truth, don't lie. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Truth fears no questions. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| 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 |
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| A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. |
| - William Blake |
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| Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. |
| - Robert Brault |
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| If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? |
| - Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made. |
| - George Burns |
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| I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. |
| - Thomas Carlyle |
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| Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? |
| - Cicero |
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| 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 |
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| When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. |
| - Bill Copeland |
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| Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. |
| - Emily Dickinson |
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| Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. |
| - Mark van Doren |
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| The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. |
| - Euripides |
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| There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other. |
| - O. Henry |
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| Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people. |
| - Frank Mckinney Hubbard |
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| An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. |
| - Jerome K. Jerome |
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| The truth needs so little rehearsal. |
| - Barbara Kingsolver |
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| The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. |
| - R.D. Laing |
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| The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. |
| - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. |
| - E.V. Lucas |
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| 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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| 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 |
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| It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. |
| - Charles Edward Montague |
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| If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. |
| - Richard J. Needham |
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| Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. |
| - Austin O'Malley |
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| It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. |
| - Thomas Paine |
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| A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. |
| - Russian Proverb |
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| A half truth is a whole lie. |
| - Yiddish Proverb |
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| When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate. |
| - Pamela Ribon |
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| If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| No legacy is so rich as honesty. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| When truth is divided, errors multiply. |
| - Eli Siegel |
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| The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
| - Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Often, the surest way to convey information is to tell the strict truth. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| When in doubt, tell the truth. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. |
| - Lemuel K. Washburn |
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| Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Honesty is the best image. |
| - Tom Wilson |
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| The truth is more important than the facts. |
| - Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. |
| - Lin Yutang |
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