Honest

Famous quotes containing the word honest:

“She was poor, but she was honest,
Victim of the squire’s whim:
First he loved her, then he left her,
And she lost her honest name.”
—Unknown. She Was Poor but She Was Honest (l. 1–4)

“An honest woman’s son, for indeed my father did something smack, something grow to, he had a kind of taste.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs,
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad;
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
“An honest man’s the noblest work of God!””
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)