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

Being honest in art is the surest way to be exceptional.

2534. Honesty is the best Policy.

Patience is the only honest muse. In writing, in painting, and especially in photography.

Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty's the best policy.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

Honesty is the best policy

Honesty in its widest sense is always admirable. 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.

There are people who believe that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it are worth six of it.

Honesty is the best policy. No matter how smart you want to be, at the end of the day, honesty will get you farther than deceit or manipulation.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.