Honest Quotes

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

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

If people dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.