Honest Quotes

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster. (As You Like It)

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

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

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

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.

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)

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.