57 Movie Quotes about Honesty (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

Memorable quotes about honesty, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Honestly it's the honest ones you want to watch out for. 'Cause you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly stupid.

Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl

2 Oh, sister, thou art not being honest with thyself, are we, huh? Huh?

Kathy Najimy as The Sanderson Sisters; Kathy Najimy as Mary Sanderson in Hocus Pocus

3 A man says he's paralyzed, we simply throw him in the snake pit. If he climbs out, then we know he's lying. -And if he doesn't climb out? -Then we have lost a patient, but we have found an honest man.

Jack Lemmon as Harry Hinkle in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

4 And what is the honest way? -Ha, ha! I thought you wouldn't know that.

Eric Blore as J. Thaddeus Toad in The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad

5 You know, the funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.

Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

6 A man of unimpeachable honesty.

Eric Blore as J. Thaddeus Toad in The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad

7 I was so moved by your honesty. The world can be a cruel place to an honest man.

John Malkovich as Mitch Leary in In the Line of Fire

8 Oh, yeah! And to be completely honest, sir, I have no brother. It was me! I ate sheep _! I swear! I did!

Chris Farley as Bartholomew Hunt in Almost Heroes (1998)

9 Don't you know what it says on our masthead, right under the eagle? The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Walter Matthau as Walter Burns in The Front Page (1974)

10 Well, I suppose a certain amount of dishonesty is bound to beget a certain amount of dishonesty.

David Niven as Sir Charles Lytton in The Pink Panther (1963)

57 Movie Quotes about Honesty (+ Sound Clips)

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