Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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Honesty is the best policy.
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.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.