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Honesty: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Ye gentlemen of England, That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas.— MARTYN PARKER — Song.
'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home.— J. HOWARD PAYNE — Home, Sweet Home.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter,-the rain may enter, -but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! WILLIAM PITT (Earl of Chatham)- Speech on the Excise Bill. Just the wee cot-the cricket's chirr- Love and the smiling face of her.— JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY — Ike Walton's
Prayer. To fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.— SAM'L ROGERS — Human Life. L. 347.
And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget, Forgetting any other home but this.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 175.
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.— Shakespeare — Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 2.
That is my home of love.— Shakespeare — Sonnet CIX.
Home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty; where Supporting and supported, polished friends And dear relations mingle into bliss.— THOMSON — The Seasons. Autumn. L. 65.
They dreamt not of a perishable home. S.— WORDSWORTH — Inside of King's College
Chapel, Cambridge. The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.— YOUNG — Love of Fame. Satire I. L. 171.
A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he maunna fa' that. U.— BURNS — For a' That and a' That.
A honest man's word is as good as his bond.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Vol. III. Pt. II. Ch. XXXIV.
Honesty is the best policy.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. II. Ch. XXXIII.
He is one that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.— FULLER — Holy and Profane States. The Good Advocate. Bk. II. Ch. I.
He that departs with his own honesty For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy.— BEN JONSON — Epigram II.
The measure of life is not length, but honestie.— LYLY — Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit.
Letters of Euphues. Euphues and Eubulus. Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.— GEORGE MACDONALD — The Marquis of Lossie. Ch. LXXI.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 247.
Yet Heav'n, that made me honest, made me more Than ever king did, when he made a lord.— NICHOLAS ROWE — Jane Shore. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 261.
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 358.
At many times I brought in my accounts, Laid them before you; you would throw them off, And say, you found them in mine honesty.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 142.
Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 178.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not. Julius Cæsar. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 66. What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. Then is doomsday near.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 240.
Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.— JOHN WEBSTER — Duchess of Malfi. Act I. Sc. I.
Omnia quæ vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt. Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.— CICERO — In Verrem. II. 3. 2.
Semper bonus homo tiro est. An honest man is always a child.— MARTIAL — Epigrammata. XII. 51. 2.