Mark Twain Honesty Quotations

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he is crooked.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When in doubt tell the truth.

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

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

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

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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

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.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.