George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

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.

I will never cheat in any walk of life.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

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.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.