Quotes On Honesty Is Not The Best Policy

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

Salman Rushdie

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michael J. Sandel

#4. Our anti-crisis policy is directed to internal demand support, social security of citizens and creation of new jobs. Like many other countries, we are reducing taxes on production, investing money in the economy. We are optimising state expenses.

Vladimir Putin

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

George Washington

#6. 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

#7. Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. 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

#9. Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

Flora Thompson

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

Kelly Rowland

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

Mark Twain

#12. 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

#13. Honesty is the best insurance policy.

Brian Spellman

#14. 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

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

Samuel R. Delany

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

Michael Short

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

John Ruskin

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

Walter Lippmann

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

Jeff Lindsay

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Charles H. Brower

#30. Once it becomes a secret, it's hard to let it out. If you don't keep it inside to begin with, it doesn't get the chance to fester and rot. So, honesty is my policy.

C.M. Stunich

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Sean Covey

#33. 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

#34. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations ... entangling alliances with none

Thomas Jefferson

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

Stacy Mantle

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

Alison G. Bailey

#37. Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse ... discretions apply elsewhere

Amit Abraham

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

Louisa May Alcott

#39. The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules.

Rebekah Nathan

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

Derek Landy

#41. 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

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

George Carlin

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

Dean Inge

#44. In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

Edward Abbey

#45. The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.

Paul Hoffman

#46. 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

#47. Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

C.S. Lewis

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#50. Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

George Washington

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. Honesty's the best policy. - Miguel de Cervantes Liars prosper. - Anonymous

Stephen King

#54. 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

#55. Honesty's the best policy.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Lois Greiman

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

William Shakespeare

#58. 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

#59. 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

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

Richard Whately

#61. Good people can disagree - all you want is honesty, because you know, if I disagree, I'm willing to debate you on that, and then let the public decide what's good policy and bad policy.

Russell Pearce

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

Robert Monroe

#63. You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

Taylor Mali

#64. 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