William Shakespeare Quotes About Honesty

• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

• No legacy is so rich as honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  1604-5 Mariana to Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 3, sc.5, l.12-13.

• 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

• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Trust, Children

• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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

• Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.121

• Corruption wins not more than honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Winning, Corruption

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

• An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Honest, Speed

  'Richard III' (1591) act 4, sc. 4, l. 359

• Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Men, Athens

  1605 Lucullus, of Timon.Timon of Athens, act 3, sc.1, l.27-8.

• Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Honesty, Winning

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

• There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Honesty, Wind

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 66

• Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Creativity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

• The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Honesty, Truth And Honesty

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.448

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

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Oysters, House

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.827, BookCaps Study Guides

• To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Honesty, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [179]

• There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

  William Shakespeare

  Trust, Honesty, Men

  William Shakespeare, George Walton Williams (1964). “The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Edition”, p.127, Duke University Press

• What a fool honesty is.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Fool

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [608]

• Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee;
  Corruption wins not more than honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Honesty, Hate

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

• Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Chance

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [734]

• Where I could not be honest,
  I never yet was valiant.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Honesty, Being Honest

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.262

• To be direct and honest is not safe.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Safe, Not Honest

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 376

• When my love swears that she is made of truth,
  I do believe her, though I know she lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Sonnet 138

• Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Grief, Ears

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.541

• There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Fellowship, Thee

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.363

• That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Hamlet And Ophelia, Fairness

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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