Conviction Quote by Robert E. Lee

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man…

— Robert E. Lee

“honest is the best policy”

— Naema Al Hashi

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

— Robert E. Lee

Honesty is better than any policy.

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Richard Whately

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

— Michel de Montaigne

“Whoever coined the phrase "honesty is the best policy" was a liar. Me and my big mouth.”

— Edward Southgate

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

— William Shakespeare

“Honesty is the best policy because there can be nothing less.”

— Robert Monroe

Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest

— Gregory Nunn

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

— James A. Garfield