Honesty Quotes

If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

I prefer honesty over loyalty any day, because with honesty comes loyalty.

Honesty is the best policy.[translation by John Willis Clark]I say so, because with me the good will have support and protection, and the bad neither footing nor access.[translation by John Ormsby][Dígolo porque los buenos tendrán conmigo mano y concavidad, y los malos ni pie ni entrada.]

Honest people don’t hide their deeds.

Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.”

An honest woman is one whom her lover fears to compromise.[Une femme honnête est celle que l’on craint de compromettre.]

An honest woman is necessarily a married woman.[Une femme honnête est essentiellement mariée.]