Honest Man Quotes
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Women love an honest man.
— Rita Ora
Let's be honest, for a lot of well meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.
— Hillary Clinton
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
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
The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
— Pope Gregory I
But to be honest, there is only so much battle a man can take. I think all of us crave a quieter life with a tender touch. (Sparhawk)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
— Aristophanes
Things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.
— Patrick DeWitt
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
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
A woman ought to be honest with a man who shows interest in her.
— Elisabeth Elliot
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
but man, if you're not honest with yourself you're a lost soul swimming with the 15 foot crocodiles.
— Smokey Yunick
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
Gandhi once said, "There are 999 who believe in honesty for every honest man.
— Cameron C. Taylor
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
— William Hazlitt
I am known as a one liner man because I don't give chance to people to read between the lines.
— Amit Abraham
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
— William Shakespeare
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
— Lord Melbourne
The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.
— Plato
The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.
— Vince Lombardi
It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
— Thomas Sowell
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times
in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. — Michel De Montaigne
in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. — Michel De Montaigne
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.
— John Fletcher
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
— Robert Burns
Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.
— Milton S. Hershey
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
— Benjamin Franklin
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
— William Faulkner
No honest man will argue on every side
— Sophocles
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
It's my opinion every man cheats in his way, and he is only honest who of discovered.
— Susanna Centlivre
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
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
— Diogenes Of Sinope
A thoroughly honest man is a rare jewel in the shallow stream of meaningless pebbles.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
— Tennessee Williams
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
— Thomas Carlyle
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
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
— Mark Twain
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
The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.
— Niecy Nash
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
Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.
— Gabriel Iglesias
An honest man is always a child.
— Socrates
No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.
— Nixon Waterman
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
If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.
— Shannon L. Alder
You cannot con an honest man.
— Ally Carter
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
I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.
— Logan Lerman
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
The real sin ma'am, in my mind lies in thinking of ever wedding with a man you don't love honest and true.
— Thomas Hardy
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
— Thomas Paine
What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion? asked Nothing.
— Joe Abercrombie