Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Honest
Honest a man as ever brake bread.
—Anonymous
Honest a man as ever trod on shoe leather.
—Anonymous
Honest as a cat when the meat is out of reach.
—Anonymous
Honest as a mirror.
—Anonymous
Honest as the day is long.
—Anonymous
Honest as the sun.
—Anonymous
Honest as the skin between his brows.
—Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Honest as a tar.
—James Grahame
Honest a man as ever lived by bread.
—Thomas Heywood
Bluffly honest as a northwest wind.
—James Russell Lowell
Honest a man as any in the cards, when all the Kings are out.
—Brian Melbancke
Honest as the skin between his brows.
—William Shakespeare
Honest as the nature of man first made, ere fraud and vice were fashions.
—Thomas Otway