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