Honesty - Select Quotes

One lie will destroy a whole reputation for integrity.
~ Baltasar Gracian, in The Art of Worldly Wisdom

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~ Noel Coward

An honest man is the noblest work of God.
~ Alexander Pope

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch. Nay, you may kick it about all day, and it will be round and full at evening.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
~ Winston Churchill

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
~ William Shakespeare

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