Honest Man Quotes - Page 10

• Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Play, Credit

  Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.2174, Delphi Classics

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• But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Men, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1080, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Groups, Causes

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• An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Honesty, Exercise

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• The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

  Luther Burbank

  Teacher, Men, Atheism

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• At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Sheep, Rams

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• The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Art, Men

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• Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, America, Safety

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• We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Men, Brave, Democracy

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• You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Heart, Reality

  Durant Drake, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, James Bissett Pratt, Arthur Kenyon Rogers, George Santayana (1920). “Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge”

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• And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Liberty, Thieves

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• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Population, Opinion

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 1

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• An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

  William Hazlitt

  Truth, Men, Order

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

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• There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored. What honest man on being casually taken for a housebreaker does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mistake, Taken, Men

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.98, Xist Publishing

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• You cannot con an honest man.

  Ally Carter

  Honesty, Men, Honest

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.232, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Honest, Cheat

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.158, Hachette UK

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• The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

  James Jones

  Men, Honest, Illusion

  James Jones (2012). “The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle”, p.1155, Open Road Media

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• Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

  Vasily Grossman

  Honesty, Men, Years

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• ...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

  Patrick deWitt

  Men, Honest

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.134, Granta Books

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• In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Sheep, Land

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

  William Faulkner

  Liars, Lying, Men

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Calling, Honest

  Ayn Rand (2014). “The Unconquered: With Another, Earlier Adaptation of We the Living”, p.310, Palgrave Macmillan

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• When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

  George R. R. Martin

  Liars, Lying, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3462, Bantam

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• There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.

  Brad Thor

  Men, Ego, Demand

  Brad Thor (2012). “Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Confused, Army, Men

  "The Age of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 8), 2002.

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