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Quotes About Deception

God help the noble Claudio! if he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand pound ere a' be cured.
~ William Shakespeare
Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.
~ William Shakespeare
For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In complement extern 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at I am not what I am.
~ William Shakespeare
Let him forever go!-Let him not, Charmian. Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, The other way he's a Mars.
~ William Shakespeare
Caliban: As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.
~ William Shakespeare
Thus I clothe my naked villainy with old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ, and seem a saint when most I play the devil.
~ William Shakespeare
What is a traitor? Lady Macduff: Why, one that swears and lies. Son: And be all traitors that do so? Lady Macduff: Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged. Son: Who must hang them? Lady Macduff Why, the honest men. Son: Then the liars and swearers are fools; for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men, and hang up them.
~ William Shakespeare
Look here upon this picture, and on this...
~ William Shakespeare
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies
~ William Shakespeare
An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
~ William Shakespeare
This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.
~ William Shakespeare
she shall scant show well that now shows best.
~ William Shakespeare
But I have that within which passes show. these but the trappings and the suits of woe
~ William Shakespeare
And with a little pin bores through his castle wall and farewell king.
~ William Shakespeare
she did lie In her pavillion--cloth-of-gold of tissue-- O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy out-work nature
~ William Shakespeare
Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times Thou never shouldst love woman like to me. VIOLA:And all those sayings will I overswear; And those swearings keep as true in soul As doth that orbèd continent the fire That severs day from night.
~ William Shakespeare
Stealing and giving odor. Enough, no more. 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
~ William Shakespeare
Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.
~ William Shakespeare
Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.
~ William Shakespeare
Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
~ William Shakespeare
Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.
~ William Shakespeare
More flow'rs I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or color it had stol'n from thee.
~ William Shakespeare
Pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad cosas bajas y viles, porque no ve con los ojos, sino con la mente, y por eso pinta ciego a Cupido el alado. Ni tiene en su mente el amor señal alguna de discernimiento; como que las alas y la ceguera son signos de imprudente premura. Y por ella se dice que el amor es niño, siendo tan a menudo engañado en la elección. Y como en sus juegos perjuran los muchachos traviesos, así el rapaz amor es perjurado en todas partes.
~ William Shakespeare
if I were the Moor I wouldn't want to be Iago.
~ William Shakespeare