Top 100 Sayings About An Honest Man
#2. We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.
Sidney Sheldon
#3. The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
James Jones
#4. An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
Friedrich Schiller
#5. They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
Don McLean
#6. An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.
Rembrandt
#7. The minister was an honest man so far as he knew himself and honesty, and did not relish this form of submission. But he did not ask himself where was the difference between accepting the word of man and accepting man's explanation of the word of God!
George MacDonald
#8. a rogue can generally express himself better than an honest man.
G.A. Henty
#9. 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
#10. I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'
Doug Harvey
#11. 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
#12. An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Norman Davies
#13. I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer,
Ursula K. Le Guin
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.
Matt Taibbi
#17. A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Aristophanes
#19. I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man.
Lionel Suggs
#20. An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
Charles Caleb Colton
#21. What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion? asked Nothing.
Joe Abercrombie
#22. The Thief who has no opportunity to steal, thinks he is an Honest man.
Anupam Kher
#23. 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
#24. Saw the face of Robert Lee. Incredible eyes. An honest man, a simple man. Out of date. They all ride to glory, all the plumed knights.
Michael Shaara
#25. I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
#26. The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.
Paul Hoffman
#27. A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite ... What are you going to be? And he says ... An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That's the most important thing, Papa. And my job is finally done. For the night.
Carew Papritz
#28. Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any man who is afraid to have his doctrine investigated is not only a coward but a hypocrite.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#30. Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
C.S. Lewis
#31. There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.
Robert Palmer
#32. An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
Henry Wotton
#34. In a kingdom of thieves, the ways of an honest man will always be a crime.
Dennis Adonis
#35. A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.
Joseph Brodsky
#36. A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
William Hazlitt
#37. A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
Alexandre Dumas
#38. God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
Michel De Montaigne
#39. You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.
Confucius
#40. With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.
Honore De Balzac
#41. An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
#42. Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
Jean De La Bruyere
#43. He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Earl Wilson
#44. Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
Melissa De La Cruz
#46. An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait.
Leo Tolstoy
#49. An honest man is always a child.
[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]
Martial
#50. To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
Plautus
#51. An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.
Lord Chesterfield
#52. I am an honest man by nature, but as I live in society I try not to arouse anyone's resentment and sometimes I am compelled to lie in this endeavour. As soon as honesty becomes compatible with daily social life, I will stop telling such lies.
Soseki Natsume
#53. I simply wish to offer my fart-helt apologies, sir, for you're just an honest man doin' your job, and I'm a dishonest lad doin' mine, and of the two, you have far more reason to hang your head high than does I.
Peter David
#54. A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts
of others.
Albert Pike
#55. Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#56. This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene
a moment's forgetfulness suffice.
Andre Gide
#57. The mark of an honest man ... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.
Ayn Rand
#58. Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.
Vasily Grossman
#59. Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.
Frank Abagnale
#60. an honest man is the man who keeps his own counsel, and will not divide the plunder.
Honore De Balzac
#61. Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately
#62. If there's an honest man in this world, I haven't seen his carpentry.
Rodney Gomez
#64. For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
Mike Norton
#65. If you start walking to find an honest man, take lots of food and clothes with you as this will be a very long walking!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life.
John Fisher
#67. A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#68. I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Francis Walsingham
#69. I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
Sam Houston
#70. An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.
Francis Crick
#71. Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)
Louis L'Amour
#73. The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
Ximenes Doudan
#74. Marry me and make an honest man of me in my butler's
eyes." He kissed her. "Marry me and save me from having to chase loose women for the rest of my life."
He kissed her again. "Marry me, darling," he said once more against her lips. "Because I adore you.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#75. The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#77. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin
#78. An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
#79. God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin
#80. The value of a gift is much enhanced by sparing an honest man the misery of asking for it with confusion and blushes.
Anonymous
#82. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
William Shakespeare
#83. An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.
- A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain
#84. If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
Sonny Bono
#85. 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
#87. A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
Lord Acton
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves.
Eraldo Banovac
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
Charles Peguy
#95. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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