Honesty Quotes



       “The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu Bakr


      “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
- Thomas Jefferson


       “Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”
- Plato


      “If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
- Mark Twain

      “There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.”
- William Shakespeare

       “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
- William Shakespeare


      “Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.”
- Mark Twain


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



       “The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx

       “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” 
- Virginia Woolf

       "Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."
- Mary Kay Ash

       “To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin


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

      “The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu Bakr


       “Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie” 
- Sarah Dessen

       “Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?” 
- John Steinbeck

       “There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” 
- Spencer Johnson

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

      “Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Freeman Thomas


        “Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Judith Martin

       “Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet


        “Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.
Jada Pinkett Smith



      “Honest people don't hide their deeds.” 
- Emily Brontë 

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

       “Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.”
- Don Marquis

        “An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
- Thomas Jefferson

       “A half truth is a whole lie.”
- Yiddish Proverb

       “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

      “Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.” 
- Lemuel K. Washburn

       “Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.” 
- Simone Elkeles

      “You can't lie to your soul.” 
- Irvine Welsh

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

       “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
- Mark Twain

       “Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Adrienne Rich


       “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.  Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
- Oscar Wilde

       “Always tell the truth. If you can't always tell the truth, don't lie.”
- Anonymous


        “Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.”  
- Slovenian Proverb

       “Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.“
- Robert Brault

      “The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
John Lyly