Quotes About Truth

I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

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

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

In jest, there is truth.

And nothing is, but what is not.

What a fool honesty is.

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

In thy foul throat thou liest.

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

But tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the Instruments of Darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.