Honest Man Quotes

An honest man is always a child.
Socrates

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
Johnny Depp

Trust, Honest, Watch

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin

Honest, Whether, Whose

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin

God, Honest, Works

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington

Hope, Character, Enough

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee

Best, Saying, Real

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Poor, Honest, Remain

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

Yourself, May, Honest

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

Business, Honest, Modern

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
James A. Baldwin

Good, Honest, Writer

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
William Hazlitt

Truth, May, Give

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley

Wise, True, Honest

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
David Ogden Stiers

Faith, Family, Good

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.
Sam Houston

Give, Thought, Honest

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Oliver Goldsmith

Family, Single, Opinion

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately

Best, Honesty, Honest

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
James F. Cooper

Good, Mind, Honest

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
George Berkeley

May, Honest, Sure

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe

Honest, Makes, Necessity

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Earl Wilson

Him, Honest, Telephone

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
Matthew Simpson

Work, God, Honest

Women love an honest man.
Rita Ora

Love, Women, Honest

Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.
John Harvey Kellogg

Help, Different, Thought

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Francis Walsingham

God, Nothing, Person

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
Henry Wotton

Lie, Country, Honest

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
Sonny Bono

Honest, Anybody, Comparing

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Lord Melbourne

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young

Business, Fear, Honest

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