Mark Twain Quotes About Honesty

• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

• Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

• Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Politics

• When in doubt tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Truth, Honesty

  Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Education, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

• One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Lying, Animal

• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

• Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Inspiration, Bbq

• The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Liars, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.205, Courier Corporation

• The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Ignorance, Stupidity

  Roughing It ch. 48 (1872)

• Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Honesty, Lost

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

• There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Inspiration, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

• I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Honesty, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.14, Penguin

• Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Trump

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Use, Made

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7394, Delphi Classics

• We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Men

• Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Thinking, Way

  Mark Twain (2014). “The Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.654, e-artnow

• I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Suffering, Poison

  Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.357, Univ of California Press

• Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men, Honest

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

• No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men, Honest

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

• ....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Men, Honest

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

• As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Able, Honest

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.18, Purdue University Press

• I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Humorous, Men

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