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)
William Shakespeare Quotes
No legacy is so rich as honesty. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
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)
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)
