Quotes About Ethics

Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just,And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Apothecary: My poverty, but not my will, consents.Romeo: I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.

The purest treasure mortal times affordIs spotless reputation.

Sir Toby: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?Clown: Yes, by Saint Anne; and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.

For in the fatness of these pursy timesVirtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Didst thou never hearThat things ill got had ever bad success?

Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest.

The trumpet of his own virtues.

A politician… one that would circumvent God.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.

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

Nature her custom holds,Let shame say what it will.

See, sons, what things you are!How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!

How oft the sight of means to do ill deedsMakes ill deeds done!

Conscience is but a word that cowards use,Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.

The primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.

He was not born to shame:Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth? We are arrant knaves, all.