Top 100 Honest Man Quotes
#1. 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
#3. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin
#4. An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin
#6. 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.
John Adams
#7. Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.
Edward Sandford Martin
#8. The concern of a democracy is that no honest man shall feel uncomfortable, I don't care who he is, or how nutty he is.
E.B. White
#9. The value of a gift is much enhanced by sparing an honest man the misery of asking for it with confusion and blushes.
Anonymous
#11. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
William Shakespeare
#12. 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.
David Mamet
#13. An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.
- A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain
#14. If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
Sonny Bono
#15. An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.
Michel De Montaigne
#17. A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
Lord Acton
#18. It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.
Carol Ryrie Brink
#19. 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.
William Safire
#20. The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves.
Eraldo Banovac
#21. It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
Thomas Sowell
#22. 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.
Robert Burns
#23. You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.
George Santayana
#24. The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
Diogenes Of Sinope
#25. Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man,
Mario Puzo
#27. They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
Charles Dickens
#28. The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
Charles Peguy
#29. Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
Thomas Jefferson
#31. The honest man, though e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men, for a' that!
Robert Burns
#32. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
#34. An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#35. Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
Henry David Thoreau
#36. seem an honest man, sir," she said. " 'Let be be the end of seem,' " I said. She smiled faintly. " 'The only emperor,' " she said, " 'is the emperor of ice-cream.' " "Very good,
Robert B. Parker
#37. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#39. In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
Edward Abbey
#40. The angel told her, An honest man who committed a crime, you have no idea how many honest men have committed crimes, their crimes are countless, and contrary to popular belief these are the only crimes that cannot be forgiven.
Jose Saramago
#42. No one, by swearing, makes themselves an ounce more honest; any more than a man makes himself wealthy by counting his gold. Oaths may make a liar a liar yet again, having lied about the oath as well. But it cannot alter the worth of an honest man's word.
Jake Yaniak
#43. The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
Umberto Eco
#44. HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
George Bishop Berkeley
#45. In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan.
Andre Gide
#46. 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
#47. An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
Benjamin Franklin
#48. Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man ... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
Victor Hugo
#49. The difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don't have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair.
Scott Lynch
#50. So you're dating Mr. Freaky Vanderperv, at least you're not dating a guy with no skills and no interest in you sexually! Treat his kinks with respect and he will be an honest man with you always.
Roberto Hogue
#51. You couldn't listen to honest man whom you hate.
Toba Beta
#52. 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
#53. The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors
Charles Peguy
#54. 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.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#55. 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!"
Robert Burns
#56. That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.
King James I
#57. You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.
Neil Gaiman
#58. A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
Abigail Adams
#59. The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
Pope Gregory I
#60. To remain silent is out of the question for a strong and honest man.
Erik Larson
#61. I am looking for an honest man.
Diogenes
#62. To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -somewhere these, too, come together.
Marguerite Duras
#63. The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.
George Washington
#64. 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.
Guy De Maupassant
#65. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
Aristophanes
#67. I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.
Matt Chandler
#68. Things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.
Patrick DeWitt
#69. 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.
Joseph De Maistre
#70. Black mail I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth. Black Mail House is what I call the place with the door, in consequence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#72. The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.
Benjamin Franklin
#73. I know he is
sensitive
on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. That is why corruption is so pernicious. It breaks the will of good men.
Jed Rubenfeld
#74. I am not an economist. I am an honest man!
Mark Twain
#75. However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
William Cobbett
#76. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
Ayn Rand
#77. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
#78. 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
#79. In an honest man there is always something of a child.
Plato
#80. Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive
Cat Stevens
#81. 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.
Beck
#82. The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty
Mark Twain
#83. An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
William Hazlitt
#84. All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.
Robert Burns
#85. 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.
Lucas Malet
#86. A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
George Bernard Shaw
#87. I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. (Said to Leopold Mozart)
Joseph Haydn
#88. An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot ... but a crook must have brains.
Maxim Gorky
#90. Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
William Hazlitt
#91. To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#92. An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.
Joseph Addison
#93. Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, "I'm goin' upstairs to fuck your grandmother." He was an honest man, and he wasn't going to bullshit a four-year-old.
George Carlin
#94. Pliny is a leech," I say. "A liar as much as you're an honest man."
"And that makes him dangerous. Liars make the best promises.
Pierce Brown
#95. 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
#96. He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.
Mario Puzo
#97. 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.
Thomas Otway
#98. An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#99. If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
Matthew Simpson
