Honest Man Quotes - Page 7

• I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Honesty, Men, People

  5 Copy quote

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

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Men, Knaves

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.389, Bloomsbury Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Money, Men, Giving

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.414

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Abolition Of Slavery

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.10, Hayes Barton Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.

  James Farley

  Wise, Men, Choices

  4 Copy quote

• Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

  Men, Dancer, Rope

  6 Copy quote

• I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

  Sam Houston

  Honesty, Character, Men

  26 Copy quote

• When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Military, Army

  6 Copy quote

• Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

  Voltaire

  Christian, Men, Animal

  25 Copy quote

• For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

  Mike Norton

  Humble, Dark, Men

  5 Copy quote

• Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Practice, Different

  7 Copy quote

• They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Water, House

  Charles Dickens, Madeline House, Graham Storey (1974). “Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate editors: W.J. Carlton [and others]”

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

  James F. Cooper

  Inspirational, Men, Gentleman

  "The American Democrat". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 115, 1838.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.

  Eric L. Haney

  Selfish, War, Men

  13 Copy quote

• The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Men

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Men, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.613

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Men, Sight, Political

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Honest, Sufferers

  "The Works of Samuel Richardson: With a Sketch of His Life and Writings".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

  Diogenes

  Men, Way, Honest

  18 Copy quote

• Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

  Henry Wotton

  Country, Lying, Men

  8 Copy quote

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, People, Political

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

  Joseph Haydn

  Son, Men, Skills

  37 Copy quote

• An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Pads, Honest

  11 Copy quote

• I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Heart, Men, May

  18 Copy quote

• If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

  Matthew Simpson

  Men, Titles, Honest

  7 Copy quote