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Necessity makes an honest man a knave. Daniel Defoe

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

Francis Walsingham

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Daniel Defoe

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Richard Whately

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Benjamin Franklin

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

David Ogden Stiers

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

William Hazlitt

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Benjamin Franklin

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Robert E. Lee

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Oliver Goldsmith

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.

John Harvey Kellogg

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Thomas Huxley

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Doug Harvey

From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.

Vance McAllister

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

James Baldwin

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

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Owen D. Young

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

Matthew Simpson

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

William Wordsworth

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Johnny Depp

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.

Jean de la Bruyere

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 Fenimore Cooper

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

Earl Wilson

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Women love an honest man.

Rita Ora