Honest Quotes

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.

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

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

‘Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way, and he is only honest who is not discovered.

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