Browsing Topic Best Honesty Is The Best Policy Quotes

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

If you tell the truth, you don’t need a long memory.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Just be truthful – and if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

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.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

We may argue eloquently that ‘Honesty is the best Policy’ – unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‘Yes,’ you know he is a crook.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Acting is no longer about lying. It’s now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is the best policy, present temptation is often found to be an overmatch for those considerations.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Honesty is always the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

You know, women are acting the way they want to act now. Years ago they would hide it in the way they dressed, the way they speak, even the way they act in bed. Today, they’re doing the same thing, but they’re dressing the way they want to be treated and, when you’re with them, acting the way they want to act. And you know, honesty is the best policy. I love that.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.