No legacy is so rich as honesty. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
William Shakespeare Quotes
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster. (As You Like It)
Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe! (Othello)
I thank God, I am as honest as any man living, that is an old man and no honester than I. (Much Ado About Nothing)
Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. (Hamlet)
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. (Julius Caesar)
That is my home of love: if I have rang’d, Like him that travels, I return again. (Sonnet 109)
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. (Henry IV)
Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent. (As You Like It)
There is a history in all men’s lives Figuring the nature of the times deceas’d; The which observ’d, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. (Henry IV)
