Subject: Beliefs » Honesty (Page 4)

He’s so crooked that when he dies, they’re going to have to screw him into the ground.

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

My wife said: ‘I want an explanation and I want the truth.’ I said: ‘Make up your mind.’

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing… if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal; he's always had an agent do that.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

He will even tell a lie when it is not convenient to.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

Politicians are wedded to the truth, but like many other married couples they sometimes live apart.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

I have a friend; he keeps trying to convince me he’s a compulsive liar, but I don’t believe him.

(1970 – ) American comedian & television game show host

Very sorry can't come; lie follows by post.

(1846 – 1919) British Admiral & member of Parliament

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

(1912 – 1989) author, critic & political activist

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

(1918 - 2002) American author

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.

(1874 – 1962) American industrialist, lawyer & diplomat

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American comedian & actor

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

A witness shall not bear falsies against thy neighbor.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going somewhere else. 

(1942 – 1995) American musician

… you're so crooked that if you swallowed a nail you'd shit a corkscrew.

(1898 – 1979) British military commander