William Shakespeare Quotes About Ethics

• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

• If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Integrity, Offending

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

• We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Business, Military

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

• Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

  William Shakespeare

  Respect, Ethics, Persons

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [100]

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