Quotations About / On: HONESTY I think the greatest rogues are
they who talk most of their honesty. (Anthony Trollope
(1815-1882), British novelist. Undecimus Scott, The Three
Clerks, vol. 3, ch. xxiv, London, Bentley (1858).) Party honesty
is party duty, and party courage is party expediency. (Grover
Cleveland (1837-1908), U.S. president. Horace Samuel Merrill,
Bourbon Leader: Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party, ch. 7
(1957).) I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can
honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright,
critic. Broadcast, July 11, 1932.) Honesty is a selfish virtue.
Yes I am honest enough. (Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S.
author. (Written 1903), originally published as Things As They
Are 1950. "Q.E.D.," bk. 1, Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early
Writings, Liveright (1971).) He that fails in his endeavours
after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or
courage. (Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), Br