Quotes About Integrity

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

I talk of you: Why did you wish me milder? would you have me False to my nature? Rather say I play The man I am.

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.

So well thy words become thee as thy wounds, They smack of honor both.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale? (Twelfth Night)

Why did you wish me milder? would you have me False to my nature? Rather say I play The man I am.

To do a great right do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.

Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair face will wither, a full eye will wax hollow. But a good heart...is the sun and moon...for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly.

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.

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence...

My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love:

What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet. I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing, I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms, Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that; move still, still so, And own no other function: each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deed, That all your acts are queens.

Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. - Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1

And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.