quotations about honesty
I will be honest if only to differ from my neighbors.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
LEE IACOCCA
U.S. News & World Report, 1985
A clean mouth and an honest hand
Will take a man through any land.
GERMAN PROVERB
I'm going to tell it like it is. I hope you can take it like it is.
MALCOLM X
speech at founding rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, Jun. 28, 1964
There is one way to find out if a man is honest. Ask him! If he says yes, you know he's crooked.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, The Harper Book of Quotations
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Conversations of Goethe
Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people.
KIN HUBBARD
Abe Martin: Hoss Sense and Nonsense
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
OSCAR WILDE
The Critic as Artist
An honest man is all of a piece the whole contexture of his life.
DANIEL DEFOE
"On Relative Honesty"
Lies get people into trouble, but honesty is its own defense.
DAVID HUDDLESTON
Life's Little Spiritual Instruction Book
A day without honesty is like a day without sunshine.
JAMES H. MERKEL & ABDUL WAHAD AL-FALAIJ
On the Art of Business
With death comes honesty.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Satanic Verses
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.
DAVID HAROLD FINK
Be Your Real Self
Honesty maketh rich, but she works slowly.
GERMAN PROVERB