Quotations on Honesty

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

~ George Bernard Shaw

There is only one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says 'yes', you know he is crooked.

~ Groucho Marx

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

~ Alexander Pope

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

~ Thomas Carlyle

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

~ Mark Twain

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.

~ Thomas Fuller

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

~ Sigmund Freud

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

~ Don Marquis

All the honesty in the world ain't legal tender for one loaf of bread.

~ Josh Billings

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

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

~ Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

~ Tom Stoppard

An honest man is one who's never been caught.

~ Proverbs

- American Proverb

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

~ H.G. Wells

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

~ Stephen Vincent Benét

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

~ William Ralph Inge