Morality Quotes

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.”

“Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.”

“Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.”

“Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.”

“Conscience is a thousand swords.”

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.”

“My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.”

“Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee;Corruption wins not more than honesty.”

“O heresy in fair, fit for these days,A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.”

“Corruption wins not more than honesty.”

“Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.”

“Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.”

“Past all shame, so past all truth.”

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”

“But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.”

“The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.”

“I beseech you,Wrest once the law to your authority:To do a great right, do a little wrong.”

“To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.”

“To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.”

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.”

“In limited professions there's boundless theft.”

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

“All offences come from the heart.”