Quotes with honesty

Quotes 21 till 40 of 73.

• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• Honesty is the best policy.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately
  British writer (1787 - 1863)
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• Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

  Mary Kay Ash
  American businesswoman (1918 - 2001)
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• Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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• Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

  Brooke Shields
  American actress and model (1965 - )
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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

  George Carlin
  American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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• Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

  Kin Hubbard
  American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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• I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

  Susan Sarandon
  American actress and activist (1946 - )
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• I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

  Jessamyn West
  American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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• I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

  Charles Dickens
  English writer (1812 - 1870)
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• I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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• I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

  Bruno Mars
  American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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• I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

  Henry van Dyke
  American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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• I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

  Anthony Trollope
  British writer (1815 - 1882)
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• If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

  Anthony Trollope
  British writer (1815 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conventional
• incompatible
• second-best
• countenance
• politicians
• unnecessary

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