honesty Quotes

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.