Honest Man Quotes - Page 6

• There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Believe, Men

  "Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches".

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• I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Intelligent, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Fashion, Men, Evil

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• Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Men, Evil

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• the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

  Umberto Eco

  Beautiful, Hate, Destiny

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, May, Rogues

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• A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

  Cato the Younger

  Men, Vagrants, Honest

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• Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honest, Villain

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.269, Oxford University Press

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• What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most, they give only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and Godspeed, to the right, as it goes by them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Regret, Men, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Liars, Men, May

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Doe, Looks

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.496, Simon and Schuster

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• It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

  Samuel Adams (1907). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777”

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• An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Honest, Sober

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.160

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• The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

  George Washington

  Men, Honest, Praise

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• Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Fall, Men

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• An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, Brain, Crooks

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “The Lower Depths”, p.78, Courier Dover Publications

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• An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Honest, Praise

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

  David Mamet

  Religious, Believe, Men

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• Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.

  Alan Rickman

  Sweet, Men, Thinking

  "Alan Rickman: The Empire Interview". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.empireonline.com. January 14, 2016.

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• A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Intelligent, Men, Miracle

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.875, Library of Alexandria

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• Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

  Charles Mackay

  Honesty, Men, Tongue

  Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”

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• Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Honesty, Lying

  Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.134

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• An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Marriage, Girl

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• Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Honesty, Men, Gentleman

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• Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Love, Men, Honest

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