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Women love an honest man. — Rita Ora

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field. — Ricky Williams

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. — George Bernard Shaw

Lower himself!" says the lady, with a toss of her head. "No man lowers himself by pursuing an honest calling. No man! — William Makepeace Thackeray

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man. — Lionel Suggs

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

an honest man is the man who keeps his own counsel, and will not divide the plunder. — Honore De Balzac

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen. — Jean De La Bruyere

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. — Pope Gregory I

In a kingdom of thieves, the ways of an honest man will always be a crime. — Dennis Adonis

The value of a gift is much enhanced by sparing an honest man the misery of asking for it with confusion and blushes. — Anonymous

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. — Aristophanes

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work. — Neil Gaiman

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due. — Benjamin Franklin

A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day! — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

But I tell you what it is; an honest and sensitive man is open; and a business man 'listens and goes on eating' you up. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie. — Marcus Aurelius

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. — Richard Whately

Give me an honest con man any day. — J.D. Salinger

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man? — Melissa De La Cruz

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. — Thomas Otway

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced. — Ayn Rand

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect. — William Hazlitt

He had an easy manner and an honest smile. He seemed an earnest man. I did not like him. — Patrick Rothfuss

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt

An honest man nearly always thinks justly. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone. — Earl Wilson

An honest man is respected by all parties. — William Hazlitt

The mark of an honest man ... is that he means what he says and knows what he means. — Ayn Rand

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar. — Edward H. Harriman

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. — Henry Wotton

An honest man is a rare treasure. — Jim Butcher

An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. — Norman Davies

Necessity makes an honest man a knave. — Daniel Defoe

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

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear. — Joseph Addison

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Bishop Berkeley

An honest God is the noblest work of man. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

I want to be an honest man and a good writer. — James Baldwin

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man. — William Cobbett

He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man. — Mario Puzo

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

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

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

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

You can't cheat an honest man. — W.C. Fields

An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt. — J. Golden Kimball

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

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot ... but a crook must have brains. — Maxim Gorky

If there's an honest man in this world, I haven't seen his carpentry. — Rodney Gomez

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. — Euripides

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity. — Charles Peguy

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley. — Ann Landers

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

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues. — Charles Caleb Colton

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. — Richard J. Codey

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Is this the part where you tell me he'll come around?" "Hell, no." At least Phil Butler was an honest man. Five — S.E. Jakes

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

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction. — Albert Camus

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

What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion? asked Nothing. — Joe Abercrombie

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. — Thomas Carlyle

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

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. — Aristophanes

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. — Benjamin Franklin

An honest man is always a child.
[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.] — Martial

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. — William Shakespeare

He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend. — Louisa May Alcott

So an honest man is the common enemy. — Honore De Balzac

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today? — Henry David Thoreau

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul. — G. M. Trevelyan

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man. — Sonny Bono

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed. — Robert E.Lee

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

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. — William Shakespeare

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty. — Plautus

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. — Alfred Harmsworth

You are an honest and honorable man ... Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life. — George R R Martin

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar. — Lord Acton

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.
- A Tramp Abroad — Mark Twain

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. — Benjamin Franklin

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light. — John Fletcher

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. — Lord Melbourne

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts. — John Andreas Widtsoe

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him. — Confucius

You cannot con an honest man. — Ally Carter

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie. — George R R Martin

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

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it. — Robert Burns

In an honest man there is always something of a child. — Plato

An honest man is always a child. — Socrates

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way. — Oswald Chambers