Honesty Verse?

Question

I need a short verse or poem about honesty for the start of my English speech, preferrably by somebody well known.

Answer 1

Can you be more specific about the theme of your speech? For example, is it about honesty in a relationship, being true to oneself, or a lack of honesty (dishonesty) altogether? There are lots of poems/quotes, but some may refute what you're saying in your speech.

Answer 2

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Sir Walter Scott

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? Cicero

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Steve Landesberg

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Mark Twain

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Brigham Young

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. William Shakespeare

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Thomas Jefferson

No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see. F. Scott Fitzgerald

No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare

more here:

http://www.best-quotes-poems.com/honesty...

HONESTY

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue,

for it takes a short cut to everything.

But over time you learn, you can't make wrong work.

There are always two choices,

two paths to take.

One is easy.

And your only reward is that it's easy.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Work joyfully and peacefully,

knowing that right thoughts and right efforts

will inevitably bring about right results.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you,

and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

You always experience the consequences of your own acts.

If your acts are right, you'll get good consequences;

if not, you'll suffer for it.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

~~ Author Unknown ~~

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art3...