Honest Quotes

Put a rouge in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

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)

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

It’s better to be quotable than to be honest.