William Shakespeare on Honesty
1564–1616 England
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They fool me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by.
Bashful sincerity and comely love.
What's the news?
None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest.
Then is doomsday near.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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.
Julius Cæsar (1599)
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.
The world is still deceiv'd with ornament,
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being season'd with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?