Honest Man Quotes - Page 2

• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

  Henry Wotton

  Country, Honesty, Lying

  "Up Front With Robert Murphy" by C. L Sulzberger, www.nytimes.com. February 23, 1964.

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• An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

  Robert Burns

  Lying, Heart, Men

  Robert Burns (1871). “The complete poetical works of Robert Burns, arranged in the order of their earliest publication: (... by Scott Douglas)”, p.166

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• Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Self, Law

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• An honest man is always a child.
  [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]

  Socrates

  Children, Honesty, Men

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• An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Honesty, Men, Thinking

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 277, 1908.

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• There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, May, Honest

  Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament, September 12, 1654.

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Honesty, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.

  Ralph Moody

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  Ralph Moody (1991). “Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers”, p.177, U of Nebraska Press

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• No honest man will argue on every side

  Sophocles

  Honesty, Men, Sides

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• In an honest man there is always something of a child.

  Plato

  Children, Men, Honest

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• I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Humorous, Men

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• Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

  Sophocles

  Army, Men, Space

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Life, Relationship

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Honesty, Men, Self

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Never give a sucker an even break.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Break Even

  Quoted in Boston Daily Globe, 9 Sept. 1923.

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• The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Thieves

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “North to the Rails: A Novel”, p.16, Bantam

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• For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Errors, Evil

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• Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Men, Knaves

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17

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• I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

  Abel Hermant

  Truth, Honesty, Crazy

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• In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  William Wordsworth

  Money, Business, Men

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• The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Honest

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.218, Penguin

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• You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.

  Confucius

  Honesty, Men, Fool

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