Honest Man Quotes - Page 11

• ...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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• We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Artist, Men, People

  SIDNEY SHELDON (1985). “IF TOMORROW COMES”

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• My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

  Jodi Picoult

  Brother, Men, Dragons

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

  Hugh Howey

  Liars, Men, Honest

  Hugh Howey (2014). “The Wool Trilogy: Wool, Shift, Dust”, p.995, Random House

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• My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Father, Simple, Men

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Men, Ideas

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• The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

  Ellen G. White

  Fall, Men, Names

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• If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Men, Giving

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.109, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Motivational, Truth, Honesty

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.550, Wordsworth Editions

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• He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  War, Men, Wish

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• He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

  George Berkeley

  Truth, Lying, Men

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362

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• ....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men, Honest

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  'Apophthegms' p. 219

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• 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.

  David Hume

  Art, Honesty, Science

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• An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.

  John Mellencamp

  Honesty, Men, Mind

  Song: Minutes To Memories, Album: Scarecrow

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• Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Men, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.53, Modern Library

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• Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Character, Men

  Letter to Elias Shipman and Merchants of New Haven, July 12, 1801.

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• It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

  Samuel Smiles

  Success, Honesty, Character

  Samuel Smiles (2005). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance”, p.287, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

  Robert Burns

  Nature, Honesty, Men

  'To the same' [John Lapraik] st. 15

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