Honest Man Quotes
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
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.
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God."
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.
Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
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.
A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.
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.
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.
I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.
Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
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.
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.
For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"
There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.
For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.