“Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.”
“Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.”
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”
“It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.”
“Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?”
“Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.”
“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”
“You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.”
“Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.”
“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”
“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”
“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.”
“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”
“If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.”
“Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.”
“From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.”
“Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.”
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”
“No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.”
“There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.”
“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.”
“Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.”
“People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.”
“We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
“There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.”
“How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.”
“Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.”
“You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.”
“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.”
“No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.”