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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Honesty |
| Honesty is the best policy. Cervantes—Don Quixote. Pt. II. Ch. XXXIII. | 1 |
| A honest man’s word is as good as his bond. Cervantes—Don Quixote. Vol. III. Pt. II. Ch. XXXIV. | 2 |
| Omnia quæ vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt. Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. Cicero—In Verrem. II. 3. 2. | 3 |
| Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain)—A Mysterious Visit. | 4 |
| He is one that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience. Fuller—Holy and Profane States. The Good Advocate. Bk. II. Ch. I. | 5 |
| When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own. Sir Matthew Hale. | 6 |
| He that departs with his own honesty For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy. Ben Jonson—Epigram II. | 7 |
| The measure of life is not length, but honestie. Lyly—Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Letters of Euphues. Euphues and Eubulus. | 8 |
| Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. George MacDonald—The Marquis of Lossie. Ch. LXXI. | 9 |
| Semper bonus homo tiro est. An honest man is always a child. Martial—Epigrams. XII. 51. 2. | 10 |
| An honest man’s the noblest work of God. Pope—Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 247. | 11 |
| Yet Heav’n, that made me honest, made me more Than ever king did, when he made a lord. Nicholas Rowe—Jane Shore. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 261. | 12 |
| Mens regnum bona possidet. An honest heart possesses a kingdom. Seneca—Thyestes. CCCLXXX. | 13 |
| No legacy is so rich as honesty. All’s Well That Ends Well. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 13. | 14 |
| Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 178. (“Two Thousand” in Folio “ten” in quartos.) | 15 |
| What’s the news? None, my lord, but that the world’s grown honest. Then is doomsday near. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 240. | 16 |
| There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm’d so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not. Julius Cæsar. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 66. | 17 |
| Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe. Othello. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 378. | 18 |
| An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 358. | 19 |
| At many times I brought in my accounts, Laid them before you; you would throw them off, And say, you found them in mine honesty. Timon of Athens. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 142. | 20 |
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| I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an “Honest Man.” George Washington—Moral Maxims. | 21 |
| Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. Washington—Speech to the Constitutional Convention. (1787). | 22 |
| Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest. John Webster—Duchess of Malfi. Act I. Sc. I. | 23 |
| “Honesty is the best policy,” but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man. Archbishop Whately—Thoughts and Apothegms. Pt. II. Ch. XVIII. Pious Frauds. | 24 |
| How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another’s will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. Sir Henry Wotton—The Character of a Happy Life. | 25 |
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