Honesty Quotes

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

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Honesty has always been very important to me.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.