Honesty Quotes

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

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.

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

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

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

Honesty is the best image.

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

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

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

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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

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

When in doubt, tell the truth.

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

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

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

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

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

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

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

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.