Honest Quotes

Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe! (Othello)

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

I’d rater know a square guy than own a square mile.

I thank God, I am as honest as any man living, that is an old man and no honester than I. (Much Ado About Nothing)

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification.

Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. (Hamlet)

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind. (Julius Caesar)