Honesty Quotes

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. (Thomas Jefferson)
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. View quote
Mark Twain
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. View quote
Richard Bach
Party honesty is party expediency. View quote
Grover Cleveland
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. View quote
Plutarch
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical! View quote
Margaret Fuller
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. (Noël Coward)
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. View quote
Frank Ocean
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. View quote
Groucho Marx
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. View quote
John Ruskin
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. View quote
Salvador Dalí
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. (Charles Dickens)
No legacy is so rich as honesty. View quote
William Shakespeare
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. View quote
Sallust
Honesty is very sexy. View quote
Valerie Bertinelli