Quotes on Honesty

Party honesty is party expediency.

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.

It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

Honesty is better than any policy.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.