Honest Quotes by William Shakespeare

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

— William Shakespeare

Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would…

— William Shakespeare

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did…

— William Shakespeare

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

— William Shakespeare

What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.

— William Shakespeare

My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.

— William Shakespeare

I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love…

— William Shakespeare

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's…

— William Shakespeare

This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only,…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

— William Shakespeare

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

— William Shakespeare

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

— William Shakespeare

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

— William Shakespeare

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

— William Shakespeare

To be direct and honest is not safe.

— William Shakespeare

A very honest woman but something given to lie

— William Shakespeare

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned,…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

— William Shakespeare