William Shakespeare on Honesty
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“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
“An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.”
“Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe.”
“Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
“What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. Then is doomsday near.”
“This above all, —to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
“At many times I brought in my accounts, Laid them before you; you would throw them off, And say, you found them in mine honesty.”
“There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.”