Quotations about

Honesty

When in doubt, tell the truth.

—Mary MacCracken

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

—Pamela Ribon

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

—Sam Rayburn

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

—Samuel Butler

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

—Thomas Sowell

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth—anonymously and posthumously.

—Tom Wilson

Honesty is the best image.

—Walter Anderson

Our lives improve only when we take chances—and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

—Will Rogers

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

—William Shakespeare

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

—William Shakespeare

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

—William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

—William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

—Unknown

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

—Charles Caleb Colton

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

—Virginia Woolf