Top 78 Honesty Is The Best Quotes
#1. Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
Miguel De Cervantes
#2. Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ...
Samuel R. Delany
#4. Some people will tell you that honesty is the best policy, but I disagree. In instances like this, I fully believe that feigned ignorance is the best policy.
Leila Sales
#5. Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
#7. It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
George Washington
#9. Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.
Ian McKellen
#11. 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
#12. Whoever claimed honesty is the best policy, or even a good one, clearly had very limited experience with the real world.
Jeff Lindsay
#13. 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
#14. We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#15. When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."
Robert Green Ingersoll
#16. Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
Billy Joel
#17. Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Stacy Mantle
#18. Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
#19. As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is the best policy, present temptation is often found to be an overmatch for those considerations.
James Madison
#20. In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
Edward Abbey
#21. The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.
Paul Hoffman
#22. Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their assets and to their investments........
Tarif Naaz
#23. Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
C.S. Lewis
#25. Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.
Ramsey Clark
#26. People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
Ma Ying-jeou
#27. Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen
Lois Greiman
#29. Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
James A. Garfield
#30. Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#31. Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately
#32. Honesty is the best policy because there can be nothing less.
Robert Monroe
#33. From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
John Harington
#34. The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
Adam DeVine
#35. Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
Walter Lippmann
#36. In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Kapil Dev
#37. My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.
Martha Beck
#38. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
George Washington
#39. 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
#40. I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.
Penn Dayton Badgley
#41. Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.
Salman Rushdie
#42. Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
Kelly Rowland
#43. Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
Louisa May Alcott
#45. Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.
Charles H. Brower
#46. Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.
Richard M. Nixon
#47. Of course I long for her, but in honesty I must say that I would rather long for her than have her continuously present. Travel agents assure us that 'getting there is half the fun'; I might say with at least equal truth that longing is some of the best of loving.
Robertson Davies
#48. The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.
Isaiah Berlin
#50. Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.
Robert H. Schuller
#51. Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
Sean Covey
#53. The best of all lost arts is honesty
Mark Twain
#54. Being honest to the people around you is the best thing you ever do to them,but expecting the same from them is the worst thing you ever do to yourself
Anonymous
#55. But honesty is not always the best policy, no matter what the Boy Scouts may tell you. So I just shook my head at his inane question. "Too soon to tell," I said.
Jeff Lindsay
#56. In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
W. Somerset Maugham
#57. Honesty is not always the best
policy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away.
Alison G. Bailey
#58. I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
Christina Aguilera
#59. Honesty is, honestly, the best policy," said Saracen. "But when honesty doesn't work, lie, and lie convincingly.
Derek Landy
#60. In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford
#61. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.
Noam Chomsky
#62. Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin
#63. Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Dean Inge
#64. But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.
Tom Robbins
#65. The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.
Rachel Maddow
#66. If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!
Beth Ramsay
#67. I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.
Mira Nair
#68. I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.
David A. Bednar
#69. Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted.
Eraldo Banovac
#70. In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.
Robert Baden-Powell
#72. Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#73. The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.
Rachel Maddow
#74. The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#75. There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Mark Twain
#76. Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
Robert Greene
#77. Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
William Lyon Phelps
#78. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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