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Honesty: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Ay, Sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.— H. ii. 2.

We need no grave to bury honesty; There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten— W.T. ii. 1.

Of the whole dungy earth. Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe.— 0. iii. 3.

I am myself indifferent honest: but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in: What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us.— H. iii. l.

Let me behold Thy face. Surely this man was born of woman.- Forgive my general and exceptless rashness, Perpetual sober-gods! I do proclaim One honest man, -mistake me not, but one; No more, I pray, -and he's a steward.— T. A iv. 3

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,— Which I respect not.

ΠON This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,— M. iv. 3.

Was once thought honest. Ha, ha, what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his sworn— W.T. iv. 3.

brother, a very simple gentleman! Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by— W.T. iv. 3.

chance. Every man has his fault, and honesty is his; I have told— T. A. iii. 1.

him on't, but I could never get him from it. Though honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt.— A. W. i. 3.

Mine honesty and I begin to square.