Honest Quote by Daniel Defoe Download Open image “Necessity makes an honest man a knave.” — Daniel Defoe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Honest Honest man Truth
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Strah od opasnosti je deset tisuća puta snažniji nego sama opasnost kad se pojavi pred očima.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who when abroad… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“was to prepare more land, for I had now seed enough to sow above an acre of ground. Before I did this, I had… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the future.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions? — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody. — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called Starry Room and then I started turning over… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image