Quotes About Honesty

"Convey," the wise it call. "Steal" ' foh! a fico for the phrase!

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;For I am arm'd so strong in honestyThat they pass by me as the idle wind,Which I respect not.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster.

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,He says he does, being then most flattered.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

Report me and my cause aright.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:I am no orator, as Brutus is;But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.

'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

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

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

My friends were poor, but honest.

I want that glib and oily artTo speak and purpose not.

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.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!