Quotes About Morality

With devotion's visageAnd pious action we do sugar o'erThe devil himself.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.

The primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stolen forth of Holy Writ And seem a saint when most I play the devil.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth? We are arrant knaves, all.

Saint-seducing gold.

A purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning.

No worse a husband than the best of men.

Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

His nature is too noble for the world:He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,Or Jove for 's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth:What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent.

There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Is it a world to hide virtues in?

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,When not to be receives reproach of being.

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

In law, what plea so tainted and corruptBut, being season'd with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil?

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?