Quotessence
Home / Topics / Honest Man Quotes

Honest Man Quotes

Browse 280 quotes about Honest Man.

Related topics

HonestyIfsKnowsMayWorldLyingKnavesTruthDishonestyFoolThinkingHeartRoguesCharacterGivingMindPeopleLiarsBelieveCheatCriminalsLibertyPrinciplesThievesWantWarWayDoeGovernmentHonesty Is The Best PolicyHonorKindMightPoliticalPoliticianPoliticsPoor

Honest Man Quotes

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”

MenHonestFoolHeroIntelligentCornersBitterUselessConsolationInsectsHonest ManScoundrelsIntelligent ManTaunting
Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
Create image

“It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.”

MenWorldVoiceHeardHonestListeningUnderstoodLaysExtremesSilverDozenMe AloneHonest ManTremblingTreasure Island
Book:Annotated Treasure Island with English Grammar Exercises: by Robert Louie Stevenson (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
Create image

“A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”

MenWayWellsMayLittlesDoeMadeFacesAttentionLaughingHonestTearsSucceedMaskFalsehoodShedHypocriteHonest ManRoguesGood FaithMusketeersThree MusketeersEpic Poems
Book:ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)
Create image

“There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.”

PeopleMenWorldNeedsTryingKindMadeTwoHandsEarthLyingWealthBrainPlansShareHonestHonestyThis WorldLaborCarefulYieldContributingHonest Man
Book:Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
Create image

“Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

MenGivingTruthHonestyDiscoveryOneselfSelf DiscoveryBeing YourselfTelling The TruthMaskFinding YourselfAbout YourselfBe YouDiscoveringTrue SelfKnow YourselfLiedDishonestyCriminal MindHonest ManKnow ThyselfAnonymityTruth And LiesHonest TruthTruth And HonestyTruth HonestyJust Being YouSelf KnowingLying MenTruth Be ToldSpiritual TruthDiscovering YourselfLies TruthTelling LiesBeing LiedDiscovering SelfSaying The TruthBusiness PlanningDiscovery In LifeTrue To OneselfDiscovering Your True SelfAlready TakenWearing A MaskHiding The TruthDishonesty And LyingLying To YourselfUnderstanding YourselfDiscovering The TruthTruth To YourselfTruth Revealed
Author:Oscar Wilde
Create image

“When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.”

MenLyingHonestLiarsHonest Man
Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
Create image

“There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.”

KnowsMenEndsForceSidesHonestPoliticianDemandEgoDeserveFaultsConvictionCandidatesVotersSheerBoth SidesHonest ManAisle
Book:Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence
Create image

“Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.”

MenWellsIdeasDifferentMightSidesHonestPerspectiveArmyAlternativesConfusedWickedConsideringSkepticHonest ManDifferent PerspectiveConflicting Ideas
Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
Create image

“I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion.”

KnowsMenWellsHeartChildrenEnoughLyingKnownHonestEmotionalEmpathyLaysChestsSuspicionHonest ManSeanHeart BeatingLie To Me
Author:Karen Marie Moning
Create image

“It has passed over mountain ranges and The waters of the seven seas. It has shown upon laborers in the fields, Into the windows of homes, And shops, and factories. It has beheld cities with gleaming towers, And also the hovels of the poor. It has been witness to both good and evil, The works of honest men and women and The conspiracy of knaves. It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday." Now, unsullied from its tireless journey, It comes to us, Messenger of the morning. Harbinger of a new day.”

MenHas BeensHomeEvilWaterPoorCitiesMorningJourneySeaHonestFieldsMountainMen And WomenWindowDestructionArmySevenWitnessRangeBombsShopsGood And EvilVillageFactoriesConspiracyTowersNew DayHonest ManMessengersLaborersKnavesHarbingerMountain Ranges
Author:Clinton Lee Scott
Create image

“Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.”

MenWantArtWarPoorPovertyHonestFaithfulServantOverwhelmedArt Of WarHonest ManServitudeFaithlessSagacityFaithful Servants
Book:History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy
Create image

“Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.”

MenSometimesWholeCharacterHandsIndividualDifficultUnderstandingInterestAbilityActingHonestHonestyInformationDutyCitizensConcernFellowsUnionsIndividualityVariousExcitedSufficientMotiveExecutivesStationsAnxiousPossessedPresidencyResortsHonest ManBest Of Me
Author:Thomas Jefferson
Create image

“It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .”

MenShouldKindMayStillsCharacterSuccessGrowsLosesRichHonestHonestyFortuneInjusticeBeing HonestFraudHonest ManUnsuccessful
Book:Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
Create image

“A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.”

MenWorldMayMightEarthFaithHonestHonestyBearsPrayingKnightsHonest ManDukes
Book:The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry
Create image