William Shenstone Quotes

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

The just man walks in his integrity

It is impossible to deny that dishonest men often grow rich and famous, becoming powerful in their parish or in parliament. Their portraits grace shop windows; and they live and die respected. This success is theirs; yet it is not the success which a noble soul will envy.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

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

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

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.