Honest Man Quotes

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

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.

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

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves.

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice.