William Shakespeare Quotes About Corruption

• Corruption wins not more than honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Winning, Corruption

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

• I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Strong, Hate

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [390]

• Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
  Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
  And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
  All men make faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Moon, Men

  Sonnet 35

• When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

  William Shakespeare

  Needs, May, Poverty

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.140

• Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Honesty, Winning

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

• Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee;
  Corruption wins not more than honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Honesty, Hate

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

• Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

  William Shakespeare

  Bud, Corruption, Sweetest

  Sonnet 35

• What wouldst thou do, old man?
  Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
  When power to flattery bows?

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.387

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