"All truth is not to be told at all times." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.

"'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do." - Alexander Pope

"When in doubt tell the truth." - Mark Twain

"It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. . .What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune." - MOHANDAS K. GANDHI, Non-Violence in Peace and War

"Honesty is praised and starves." - JUVENAL, Satires

"What is more arrogant than honesty?" - URSULA K. LE GUIN, The Left Hand of Darkness

"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose." - OVID, Epistulae ex Ponto

"An honest man's the noblest work of God." - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man

"Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

"Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man." - RICHARD WHATELY, Thoughts and Apothegms

"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." - Shakespear, William (1564-1616) spoken by Polonius in Hamlet, I.iii.78-80