Top 100 Honest Men Quotes
#1. All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
Theodore Roosevelt
#2. 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.
William Cowper
#3. Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
G. E. M. Anscombe
#4. If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.
James Farley
#6. There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
Edmund Burke
#7. The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.
Emanuel Celler
#8. To be completely honest about your flaws is the only liberation from feelings of inferiority, inadequacy and external manipulation. Your happiness is only a change of conviction away.
Crystal Evans
#9. You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.
John Wayne
#10. That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
Dorothea Dix
#11. Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#12. An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
Friedrich Schiller
#13. They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
Don McLean
#14. An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.
Rembrandt
#15. Frighteningly honest. What Anthony Bourdain did to the world of cooking in Kitchen Confidential, Leopold will do to the world of journalism. It's Sid & Nancy meets All the President's Men.
Rob Cohen
#16. I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.
Logan Lerman
#18. By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we?
C.S. Lewis
#19. 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.
William Shenstone
#20. The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.
Joseph Sobran
#21. Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.
Laurence Sterne
#22. 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.
Abel Hermant
#23. At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.
Martin Delany
#25. Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
Albert Einstein
#26. The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.
James Farley
#27. Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
Thomas Paine
#28. It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
George Santayana
#29. Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.
Ezra Taft Benson
#30. All women think men look good in suits. To be honest, I like the way they look, too.
Liam Hemsworth
#31. Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.
William J.H. Boetcker
#32. The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
Thomas Carlyle
#33. Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#34. You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.
John Smith
#35. It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.
Wilson Mizner
#36. There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#37. No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action.
Michelene Wandor
#38. There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#39. What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#40. EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
Ambrose Bierce
#41. I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.
Xaviera Hollander
#42. 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.
Rita Ora
#43. That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.
Hugh Howey
#44. It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.
Richard Steele
#45. A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Aristophanes
#46. I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
Joseph Addison
#47. I have been the patient one. I have waited for the world to stop being silly. I have waited for it to stop wars. I have waited for politicians to be honest. I have waited for real estate men to be good citizens. But while I wait, I dance!
Ray Bradbury
#48. Now, don't get me wrong, I like men in all shapes and sizes, but let's be honest. There is a direct correlation between the size of the man and the dampness along the seam of my jeans. And this one is producing some serious humidity in my southern hemisphere.
Opal Carew
#49. No honest man will argue on every side
Sophocles
#50. Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.
Junius
#51. Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.
Herman Melville
#52. Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
Thucydides
#53. An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
Charles Caleb Colton
#54. The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a better instrument for living together with other men. This sense of identity is the root by which all honest creative effort is fed.
Jay Saunders Redding
#55. My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.
Jodi Picoult
#56. Lastly, they must be men of honest report, whose life and sound conversation are by their deeds perfectly tried and sufficiently witnessed of unto the people: and finally, they must be such as bear authority, and not be despised as rascal and vile knaves.
Heinrich Bullinger
#57. No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.
Nixon Waterman
#59. The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.
Francois De La Noue
#60. Vimes could never get a handle on politics, which was full of traps for honest men.
Terry Pratchett
#61. As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.
Jane Swisshelm
#62. People who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.
John Hancock
#63. [The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.
Frank Norris
#64. A rich man is an honest man
no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
Daniel Defoe
#65. I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#66. Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.
Erin Pizzey
#67. Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.
Russell Conwell
#68. There is no attempt made by these simple and honest men, the father and son, to pretend that the dead woman was anything greatly other than she was; their respect is for death, and for the human weakness and mystery which it must finally cover.
G.K. Chesterton
#69. She was craving anything real - bad smells and stupid men, missed trains and tedious jobs. But she remembered that mixed up in the ugly parts of reality were also those true moments of grace - peaches in September, honest laughter, perfect light.
Shannon Hale
#71. You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, Man, that's attractive - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.
Anthony Hamilton
#72. The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. 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.
George Herbert
#74. 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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#75. 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.
William J.H. Boetcker
#76. I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.
Hill Harper
#77. It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.
Jean De La Bruyere
#78. our objective as moms and dads is to transform our sons from "immature and flighty youngsters into honest, caring men who will be respectful of women, loyal and faithful in marriage, keepers of commitments, strong and decisive leaders, good workers, and men who are secure in their masculinity.
James C. Dobson
#79. A tear cringed off his cheek and stained her writing on the paper. He didn't wipe it, men must be honest and transparent, they should never wipe their tears.
Bruce Crown
#80. A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#81. The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.
Luther Burbank
#82. I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.
Terry McMillan
#83. I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
Don Nickles
#85. I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
William Shakespeare
#86. Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
C.S. Lewis
#87. Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men
Abraham Lincoln
#88. For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper.
Hans F. Sennholz
#89. I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright
#90. There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.
Robert Palmer
#91. When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.
Scott Pelley
#92. Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.
Flann O'Brien
#93. What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
Samuel Richardson
#94. The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.
Louis L'Amour
#95. But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#96. [S]ome men who cheat their wives out of grocery money wouldn't think of cheating the grocer. Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes, Jean Louise. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways.
Harper Lee
#97. The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
James Martineau
#98. There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
Aristophanes
#100. We've made so much headway with storytelling - mostly on cable, let's be honest - but also on the networks and, you know, I think it's about time that the leads are women. I'm not a woman, so I'm a bit biased - I wouldn't mind if a few roles were left over for men.
Dylan Walsh
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