The repository contains 28 quotes in the category “Honesty.”
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I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.
Dan Rather
1931 —
If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
Paul Gallico
1897 — 1976
Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.
Dr. Johnson
1709 — 1784
The key to success is sincerity, and if you can fake that you can do anything.
If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying hard enough.
Repetition does not transform a lie into truth.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1882 — 1945
Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don’t.
The nearest to perfection that most people ever come is when filling out a job application.
A half truth is a whole lie.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin
1937 — 2008
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
The lip of truth shall be established for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: “I do not know.”
André Maurois
1885 — 1967
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
Plato
427? — 348? B.C.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
The man who claims to be the boss in his own home will lie about other things as well.
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
384 — 322 B.C.
Infidelity does not consist in believing or disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.
Thomas Paine
1737 — 1809
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