A Quote by Edward Abbey
In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
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.
Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.
Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
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.
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.
Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty's the best policy.
In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.
When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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