Thomas Otway Quotes About Honesty

Quotes about: Honesty

• Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Ornaments, Needs

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”

• Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Men, Knaves

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17

• Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Hands, Coward

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

• You talk to me in parables.
  You may have known that I'm no wordy man,
  Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves
  Or fools that use them, when they want good sense;
  But honesty
  Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Men, Needs

  William Congreve, James Miller, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Thomas Southern (1815). “The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy”

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