Quotes About Integrity

I have peppered two of them…. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

My friends were poor, but honest.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar;Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!

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.

He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Is it a world to hide virtues in?

An honest, exceeding poor man.

I'll prove more trueThan those that have more cunning to be strange.

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

Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

Let the end try the man.

Good now, play one sceneOf excellent dissembling, and let it lookLike perfect honor.

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

Are you good men and true?

Now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

For honor travels in a strait so narrowWhere one but goes abreast.

'Tis well said again;And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:And yet words are no deeds.

This even-handed justice.