Quotes about Honest Man

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Women love an honest man. Votes: 2

An honest man is always a child. Votes: 2

Necessity makes an honest man a knave. Votes: 2

I want to be an honest man and a good writer. Votes: 2

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. Votes: 2

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. Votes: 2

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. Votes: 2

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. Votes: 2

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. Votes: 2

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. Votes: 2

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. Votes: 2

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity. Votes: 2

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. Votes: 2

The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 1

You cannot con an honest man. Votes: 0

You can't cheat an honest man. Votes: 0

I am looking for an honest man. Votes: 0

A honest man is seldom a vagrant. Votes: 0

An honest man nearly always thinks justly. Votes: 0

Give me an honest con man any day. Votes: 0

No honest man will argue on every side Votes: 0

An honest man's the noblest work of God. Votes: 0

An honest man is respected by all parties. Votes: 0

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest. Votes: 0

An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind. Votes: 0

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth. Votes: 0

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. Votes: 0

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. Votes: 0

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics. Votes: 0

An honest God is the noblest work of man. Votes: 0

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man. Votes: 0

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie. Votes: 0

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy. Votes: 0

I am not an economist. I am an honest man! Votes: 0

A man can be honest in any sort of skin. Votes: 0

An honest man's word is as good as his bond. Votes: 0

An honest and wise man is always a very simple man. Votes: 0

An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet. Votes: 0

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him. Votes: 0

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man. Votes: 0

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity. Votes: 0

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. Votes: 0

An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt. Votes: 0

In an honest man there is always something of a child. Votes: 0

I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man. Votes: 0

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God. Votes: 0

Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God. Votes: 0

What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder? Votes: 0

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere. Votes: 0

An honest man is a debtless man, he doesn't owe anyone anything. Votes: 0

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work. Votes: 0

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear. Votes: 0

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy. Votes: 0

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. Votes: 0

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty. Votes: 0

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man. Votes: 0

The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself Votes: 0

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. Votes: 0

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. Votes: 0

An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.] Votes: 0

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally. Votes: 0

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer. Votes: 0

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due. Votes: 0

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! Votes: 0

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet. Votes: 0

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest. Votes: 0

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone. Votes: 0

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon. Votes: 0

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man. Votes: 0

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain. Votes: 0

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him. Votes: 0

The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that! Votes: 0

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. Votes: 0

It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. Votes: 0

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man. Votes: 0

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar. Votes: 0

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues. Votes: 0

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. Votes: 0

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself. Votes: 0

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. Votes: 0

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Votes: 0

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. Votes: 0

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. Votes: 0

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man. Votes: 0

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude. Votes: 0

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. Votes: 0

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Votes: 0

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. Votes: 0

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. Votes: 0

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally. Votes: 0

In a kingdom of thieves, the ways of an honest man will always be a crime. Votes: 0

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. Votes: 0

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else. Votes: 0

A man must be honest enough to make mistakes, if not he's just lying to you Votes: 0

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. Votes: 0

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains. Votes: 0

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Votes: 0

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. Votes: 0

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. Votes: 0

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. Votes: 0

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. Votes: 0

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man? Votes: 0

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. Votes: 0

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist. Votes: 0

It's my opinion every man cheats in his way, and he is only honest who of discovered. Votes: 0

They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man. Votes: 0

I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being. Votes: 0

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect. Votes: 0

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men. Votes: 0

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means. Votes: 0

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man. Votes: 0

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man. Votes: 0

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man. Votes: 0

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Votes: 0

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. Votes: 0

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man. Votes: 0

As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style. Votes: 0

Ay,sir;to be honest,as this world goes,is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Votes: 0

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man? Votes: 0

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind. Votes: 0

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33) Votes: 0

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness. Votes: 0

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. Votes: 0

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. Votes: 0

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty. Votes: 0

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. Votes: 0

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. Votes: 0

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. Votes: 0

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. Votes: 0

My father was a very humble and down to earth man, and was known for being very honest and trustworthy. Votes: 0

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light. Votes: 0

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody - thet's my philosophy. Votes: 0

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. Votes: 0

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. Votes: 0

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal. Votes: 0

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. Votes: 0

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts. Votes: 0

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself. Votes: 0

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling. Votes: 0

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. Votes: 0

The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you. Votes: 0

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation. Votes: 0

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt. Votes: 0

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. Votes: 0

To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function. Votes: 0

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest. Votes: 0

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned. Votes: 0

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life. Votes: 0

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked. Votes: 0

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen. Votes: 0

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will. Votes: 0

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day. Votes: 0

No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands. Votes: 0

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man. Votes: 0

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. Votes: 0

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. Votes: 0

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap. Votes: 0

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it. Votes: 0

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. Votes: 0

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. Votes: 0

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. Votes: 0

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. Votes: 0

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. Votes: 0

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed. Votes: 0

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest. Votes: 0

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley. Votes: 0

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. Votes: 0

Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid. Votes: 0

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all. Votes: 0

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest. Votes: 0

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly. Votes: 0

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. Votes: 0

To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179 Votes: 0

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field. Votes: 0

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit. Votes: 0

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc. Votes: 0

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. Votes: 0

Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar. Votes: 0

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction. Votes: 0

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love.One creates a man of honorable characte Votes: 0

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case. Votes: 0

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook. Votes: 0

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar. Votes: 0

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness. Votes: 0

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest. Votes: 0

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way. Votes: 0

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that. Votes: 0

Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' And a lot of men don't admit that. Votes: 0

In my experience"”and I admit I didn't anticipate this"”most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race. Votes: 0

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up. Votes: 0

Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few. Votes: 0

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave. Votes: 0

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible. Votes: 0

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity. Votes: 0

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man. Votes: 0

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man! Votes: 0

Let's be honest, for a lot of well meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear. Votes: 0

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul. Votes: 0

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying. Votes: 0

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar. Votes: 0

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison. Votes: 0

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty. Votes: 0

I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. Votes: 0

Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness! Votes: 0

In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them. Votes: 0

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish. Votes: 0

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. Votes: 0

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.' Votes: 0

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!" Votes: 0

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man... Votes: 0

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man. Votes: 0

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not. Votes: 0

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman. Votes: 0

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man -- but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point. Votes: 0

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie. Votes: 0

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play. Votes: 0

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence. Votes: 0

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses. Votes: 0

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments. Votes: 0

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character. Votes: 0

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. (Dusk To Dawn) Votes: 0

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God." Votes: 0

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump! Votes: 0

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself. Votes: 0

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing. Votes: 0

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle. Votes: 0

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due. Votes: 0