Quotes About Integrity

My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

Men should be what they seem.

Men of few words are the best men. (3.2.41)

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

What a fool honesty is.

Mark it, nuncle. Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest, Leave thy drink and thy whore And keep in-a-door, And thou shalt have more Than two tens to a score.

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true,   85 And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation: that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. Mine honour is my life; both grow in one: Take honour from me, and my life is done: Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try; In that I live and for that will I die.

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.