When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe Copy Share Image
An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't like to open my mouth a lot because, I'll be honest with you, man, I come from the streets. — Henry Cejudo Copy Share Image
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. — Henry Wotton Copy Share Image
“No one, by swearing, makes themselves an ounce more honest; any more than a man makes himself wealthy by counting his gold.… — Jake Yaniak Copy Share Image
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed.… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
“Rarely was Richelieu accused of leniency. In his hubris, he was alleged to have said, “Give me six lines written by the… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
An honest man often grows cruel When converted into an absolute prince Born from power, a bitter from fear The madness, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers… — Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis Copy Share Image
“Besides, they have put too high a price on harmony; we can’t afford to pay so much for admission. And therefore I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Ignorant men imagine that dishonesty is a short cut to prosperity. July Twenty-First. HONESTY is the surest way to success. The clay… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“XII. If there pushed any ragged thistle-stalk Above its mates, the head was chopped, the bents Were jealous else. What made those… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
