honesty Quotes

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

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.