Top 25 Honest Man Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Honest Man Quotes from famous people such as Benjamin Franklin, Earl Wilson, Thomas Huxley, George Berkeley, Cenk Uygur, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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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
He’s an honest man – you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Earl Wilson
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
George Berkeley
Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.
Cenk Uygur
From day one, I’ve always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.
Vance McAllister
I’m an honest man. I am living my life. I’m not stealing. And I’ve never been ashamed of who I am – I am a Roma.
Danis Tanovic
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
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
Jean de la Bruyere
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately
Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.
Johnny Depp
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
Sam Houston
Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn’t afraid to say, ‘Men get hurt too.’ And a lot of men don’t admit that.
Rita Ora
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
James Baldwin
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they’re comparing a criminal to an honest man.
Sonny Bono
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
Henry Wotton
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln’s title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
Matthew Simpson
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
Women love an honest man.
Rita Ora
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
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.
George Washington