William Shenstone Quotes About Honesty

Quotes about: Honesty

• It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

  William Shenstone

  Honesty, Pain, Knaves

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151

• The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

  William Shenstone

  Honesty, Character, Men

• When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

  William Shenstone

  Honesty, Book, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.15

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