Quotes About Honesty Is The Best Policy

#1. Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law ...

Louisa May Alcott

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Whoever claimed honesty is the best policy, or even a good one, clearly had very limited experience with the real world.

Jeff Lindsay

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Honesty is the best policy. It's also the most profitable.

Michael J. Sandel

#10. 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

#11. Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Mark Twain

#13. 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

#14. Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ...

Samuel R. Delany

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Richard Whately

#18. Honesty is the best policy because there can be nothing less.

Robert Monroe

#19. Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Stacy Mantle

#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

#24. Honesty is the best policy anyone need".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen

Lois Greiman

#28. Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

William Shakespeare

#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 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

#32. Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.

Salman Rushdie

#33. 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

#34. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

#35. 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

#36. Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

Walter Lippmann

#37. 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

#38. Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

Charles H. Brower

#39. Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

Richard M. Nixon

#40. Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

Sean Covey

#41. Honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

#42. 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

#43. Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

Kelly Rowland

#44. Honesty is the best insurance policy.

Brian Spellman

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

William Shakespeare

#48. In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

W. Somerset Maugham

#49. Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Dean Inge

#50. Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

George Carlin

#51. 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

#52. Honesty is, honestly, the best policy," said Saracen. "But when honesty doesn't work, lie, and lie convincingly.

Derek Landy

#53. Honesty is not always the best
policy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away.

Alison G. Bailey