#Honesty Quotes

“What a fool honesty is.”

“Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.”

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

“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.”

“What's the news?None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest,Then is doomsday near.”

“There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind”

“And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.”

“For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas”

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

“Corruption wins not more than honesty.”

“And do so, love, yet when they have devisedWhat strainèd touches rhetoric can lend,Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathizedIn true plain words by thy true-telling friend;And their gross painting might be better usedWhere cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.”

“Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.”

“I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.”

“My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.”

“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you”

“An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.”

“Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.”

“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”

“Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.”

“Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,And think perchance they'll sell; if not,The lustre of the better yet to showShall show the better.”

“His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.”

“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest”

“For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.”

“The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.”

“it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee”

“Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.”

“That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.”

“If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.”

“Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.”

“To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;But where there is true friendship, there needs none.”

“In jest, there is truth.”

“For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.”

“Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.”

“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”

“Say as you think and speak it from your souls.”

“Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello”

“For trust not him that hath once broken faith”

“There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.”

“I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.”

“An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.”

“Where I could not be honest,I never yet was valiant.”

“A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.”

“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”

“Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.”

“Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?”

“Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.”

“Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.”