Honesty Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
A few honest men are better than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) Lord Protector of England
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Thomas Otway (1652-1685) English dramatist
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest; as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
William Shenstone (1714-1763) British poet
It would be ingratitude in some men to turn honest when they owe all they have to their knavery.
George Savile, Lord Halifax (1633-1695) English statesman, author
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
Autolycus, The Winter’s Tale William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest—ask him. If he says “yes,” you know he is crooked.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977) American comic actor
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) Irish philosopher
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake (1757-1827) English poet, artist
Don’t be ashamed to say what you are not ashamed to think.
Michel de Montaigne (15334592) French essayist
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.
PubliliusSyrus (1st century BC) Roman writer of mimes
