A Quote by David Shields

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.

David Shields

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David Shields
American - Author
Born: July 22, 1956

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

William Lyon Phelps

The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Robert E. Lee

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.

Robert E. Lee

In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.

Jillian Michaels

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

George Carlin

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

W. Somerset Maugham

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

Charles H. Brower

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

Kapil Dev

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

Samuel R. Delany

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

Walter Lippmann

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

George Washington

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

Penn Dayton Badgley

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.