Honesty is the best policy. [ Proverb ]

Honesty is often goaded to ruin. [ Phaedr ]

No legacy is so rich as honesty. [ William Shakespeare ]

Integrity gains strength by use. [ Tillotson ]

An honest man is always a child. [ Martial ]

The badge of honesty is simplicity. [ Novalis ]

Honesty, now-a-days, wants a guard. [ Proverb ]

An honest heart possesses a kingdom. [ Seneca ]

Honesty needs no disguise or ornament. [ Otway ]

Hypocritical honesty goes upon stilts. [ Proverb ]

If honesty cannot, knavery should not. [ Proverb ]

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

An honest man's the noblest work of God. [ Pope ]

Honesty needs no pains to set itself off. [ Edward Moore ]

An honest man is respected by all parties. [ Hazlitt ]

No man ever surfeited on too much honesty. [ Proverb ]

No honest man ever repented of his honesty. [ Proverb ]

Distrust him who talks much of his honesty. [ Dussaulx ]

Honest minds are pleased with honest things. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

You measure every man's honesty by your own. [ Proverb ]

An honest man's word is as good as his bond. [ Cervantes ]

And conscience, truth and honesty are made
To rise and fall, like other wares of trade. [ Moore ]

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
For I am armed so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind
Which I respect not. [ Jul. Caes ]

Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteemed;
But honesty once pawned is never redeemed. [ Middleton ]

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. [ William Shakespeare ]

Honesty is a fine jewel, but much out of fashion. [ Proverb ]

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame. [ Owen Feltham ]

Knavery may serve a turn, but honesty never fails. [ Proverb ]

Truth and honesty have no need of loud protestations. [ Proverb ]

Honesty and plain dealing puts knavery out of the bias. [ Proverb ]

Deceit is in haste, but honesty can stay a fair leisure. [ Proverb ]

Honesty is the poor man's pork and the rich man's pudding. [ Proverb ]

There were such black swans formerly as truth and honesty. [ Proverb ]

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain. [ Schiller ]

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness, - all in one. [ Richardson ]

Friendship is the greatest honesty and ingenuity in the world. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Honesty may be dear bought, but can ne'er be an ill pennyworth. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be a dear pennyworth. [ Proverb ]

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. [ Shaftesbury ]

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar. [ Shakespeare ]

Honesty is like an icicle; if it once melts, that is the last of it. [ Amer. Proverb ]

The first article that a young trader offers for sale is his honesty. [ Proverb ]

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. [ Roosevelt ]

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. [ William Shakespeare ]

She that loses her modesty and honesty, hath nothing else worth losing. [ Proverb ]

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does. [ H. W. Shaw ]

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming. [ Cicero ]

To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. [ William Shakespeare ]

Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself. [ C. N. Bovee ]

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. [ George MacDonald ]

The world is not so much knave, that it holds honesty to be a vice and a folly. [ Proverb ]

Do you fear to trust the word of a man whose honesty you have seen in business? [ Terence ]

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. [ Hazlitt ]

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster. [ William Shakespeare ]

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men. [ Madame Swetchine ]

It is because honesty will soon be scarce that we must use it to deceive the deceivers.

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there. [ Cowper ]

What is more at ease, more abstracted from the world, than a true single-hearted honesty? [ Thomas à Kempis ]

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and good-nature. [ Montaigne ]

Commend a fool for his wit or a knave for his honesty, and he will receive you into his bosom. [ Fielding ]

Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom. [ Fielding ]

Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms. [ Field ]

He who prorogues the honesty of today till tomorrow, will probably prorogue his tomorrows to eternity. [ Lavater ]

Experience is the common schoolhouse of fools and ill men. Men of wit and honesty be otherwise instructed. [ Erasmus ]

Let Fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. [ Pope ]

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. [ Lavater ]

Fine speeches are the instruments of fools or knaves, who use them when they want good sense; but honesty needs no disguise or ornament. [ Otway ]

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade. [ Ben Jonson ]

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character. [ Shenstone ]

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. [ Shenstone ]

Pray for and work for fullness of life above everything; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Collier ]