Quotes about Honesty
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
- Samuel Johnson
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
- GK Chesterton
When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."
- Anonymous
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
- Samuel Johnson
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
- George Washington
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
- Albert Camus
No sensible person ever made an apology.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
- William Hazlitt
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
- Henry David Thoreau
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
- George Bernard Shaw
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
- GK Chesterton