The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

the overall system is almost incompatible with honesty.

It's a gentleman's game based on honesty. Still, we require that someone see the golfer hit the shot.

Let there be a fresh breeze of new honesty, new idealism, new integrity. You have typewriters, presses and a huge audience. How about raising hell?

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.