Top 33 Honest Man Quotes

Here we have the best Honest Man Quotes from famous authors such as George Berkeley, Cenk Uygur, George Washington, Owen D. Young, Oliver Goldsmith. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley

Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.

Cenk Uygur

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

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

Owen D Young

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Benjamin Franklin

This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It’s possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Matt Taibbi

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

David Ogden Stiers

From day one, I’ve always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.

Vance McAllister

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

Henry Wotton

The honest man might observe… that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

David Mamet

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

Francis Walsingham

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Daniel Defoe

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

Benjamin Franklin

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

William Wordsworth

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

William Hazlitt

Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn’t afraid to say, ‘Men get hurt too.’ And a lot of men don’t admit that.

Rita Ora

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

I’m an honest man. I am living my life. I’m not stealing. And I’ve never been ashamed of who I am – I am a Roma.

Danis Tanovic

Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Johnny Depp

Women love an honest man.

Rita Ora

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln‘s title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

Matthew Simpson

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates

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

Sonny Bono

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

James Baldwin

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Thomas Huxley

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

James Fenimore Cooper

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

Richard Whately

He’s an honest man – you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

Earl Wilson

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Top 33 Honest Man Quotes

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