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Mark Twain Quotes about Honesty

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Honesty, Lying, Animal

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

Honesty, Humorous, Men

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Truth, Honesty, Memories

Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

When in doubt tell the truth.

Life, Truth, Honesty

Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

Art, Honesty, Lost

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Honesty, Use, Made

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7394, Delphi Classics

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.

Honesty, Inspiration, Thinking

Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Truth, Honesty, Politics

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

Honesty, Inspiration, Bbq

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Honesty, Ignorance, Stupidity

Roughing It ch. 48 (1872)

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

Death, Honesty, Thinking

Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.14, Penguin

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

Honesty, Liars, Men

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.205, Courier Corporation

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

Truth, Honesty, Trump

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

Truth, Honesty, Men

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Honesty, Suffering, Poison

Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.357, Univ of California Press

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Honesty, Thinking, Way

Mark Twain (2014). “The Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.654, e-artnow

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Honesty, Men, Honest

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Honesty, Six, Sometimes

Mark Twain (1897). “More Tramps Abroad”

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Honesty, Men, Honest

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

Honesty, Men, Honest

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

Honesty, Able, Honest

Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.18, Purdue University Press

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