honesty Quotes

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.