Quotes from William Shakespeare

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

Help me Cassius or I sink!

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

When I was at home I was in a better place

Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

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

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

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

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

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

To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

Ay sir to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.