Francis Beaumont Quotes

Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

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.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.