The Best Policy Quotes

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

I have been very successful in handling people who hurl abuse simply by being patient. Ignoring them is the best policy because afterwards, it’s the fans that criticise these so-called celebrities for their bad conduct.

Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don’t think that’s the best policy.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

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.

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.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is 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.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I have seen throughout my professional career that the robust exchange of ideas and bipartisan compromises can bring about the best policy results.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother’s advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy.