Quotes About Ethics

Saint-seducing gold.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

A purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning.

No worse a husband than the best of men.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Is it a world to hide virtues in?

In law, what plea so tainted and corruptBut, being season'd with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil?

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?

Like a fair house built upon another man's ground.

I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

Though it be honest, it is never goodTo bring bad news.

William Shakespeare

A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

An upright judge, a learned judge!

You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

First Guard:… Charmian, is this well done?Charmian: It is well done, and fitting for a princessDescended of so many royal kings.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.

Niether a borrower nor a lender be.