Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest

Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.