Quotes About Honesty

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.

But tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the Instruments of Darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

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

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?

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know;

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

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.

There are no faces truer than those that are so washed. How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!

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.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness And time to speak it in. You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster.

CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend? CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you. CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought

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

Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

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

Truth may seem, but cannot be; Beauty brag, but 'tis not she: Truth and beauty buriéd be.