Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

                      —Spencer Johnson

Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator’s psyche.

                            —Leslie Conger

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

             —William Shakespeare

If you truly want honesty, don’t ask questions you don’t really want the answer to.

                                       —proverb

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone, and hurt them to the bone, you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

                         —Dave Von Ronk

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

                                     —Socrates

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

                              —Mark Twain

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin. Steal from a thief, for that is easy. Lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt. But beware of an honest man.

                             —Arab proverb

Who lies for you will lie against you.

                       —Bosnian proverb

A half truth is a whole lie.

                        —Yiddish proverb

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.

                                —anonymous

Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie. A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

                         —George Herbert

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

                         —Oliver Wendell

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

                   —Winston Churchill

Honest pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.

                             —Kin Hubbard

No mask like open truth to cover lies, / As to go naked is the best disguise.

                    —William Congreve

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

                       —Adlai Stevenson

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

                 —Barbara Kingsolver

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest — ask him. If he says, “Yes,” you know he is a crook.

                           —Groucho Marx