honesty Quotes

“great robbers always resemble honest folks. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise they would be arrested off-hand. ”

― Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

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“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”

― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

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“I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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“Distinction does not consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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“Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

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