Honesty is the best policy

Kuenssberg described it as "embarrassing and disappointing", but that "red faces aside, honesty is the best policy".

Which is why I think honesty is the best policy — about what is going on but also about how the world works.

The judge continued: “The City instead opted to approve a petition for a referendum it believed and later contended was illegal. A proverb dating back over four centuries ago once again applies here: Honesty is the Best Policy.”

If you ask me, people who say honesty is the best policy are just terrible liars.

“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy,” he wrote in his farewell address.