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Quotes About Truth

You see we do, yet see you but our hands And this the bleeding business they have done: Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful
~ William Shakespeare
The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be Doth dwell.
~ William Shakespeare
the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days;
~ William Shakespeare
Knock... and ask your heart what it doth know.
~ William Shakespeare
Oh what man may hide inside, tho angel on the outward side.
~ William Shakespeare
And tell them that I will not come today. "Cannot" is false, and that I dare not, falser. I will not come today. Tell them so
~ William Shakespeare
And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds.
~ William Shakespeare
Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.
~ William Shakespeare
And, till she come, as truly as to heaven I do confess the vices of my blood, So justly to your grave ears I'll present How I did thrive in this fair lady's love, And she in mine.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let me try.
~ William Shakespeare
To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee. LADY GREY: To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.
~ William Shakespeare
Fair, kind and true' is all my argument, 'Fair, kind, and true' varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords. 'Fair, kind, and true,' have often lived alone, Which three till now never kept seat in one.
~ William Shakespeare
In a false quarrel there is no true valor
~ William Shakespeare
For truth can never be confirmed enough, Though doubts did ever sleep.
~ William Shakespeare
Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.
~ William Shakespeare
In all my life only that dream is real.
~ William Shakespeare
Who are you? Tell me for more certainty. Albeit, I'll swear that I do know your tongue. Lorenzo: Lorenzo, and thy love. Jessica: Lorenzo, certain, and my love indeed. For who love I so much? And now who knows but you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours? Lorenzo: Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art.
~ William Shakespeare
Slanders, sir. For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams—all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.
~ William Shakespeare
A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind; Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.
~ William Shakespeare
Las palabras están llenas de falsedad o de arte; la mirada es el lenguaje del corazón.
~ William Shakespeare
He is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it.
~ William Shakespeare
Stay, I prithee tell me what thou think'st of me. Viola: That you do think you are not what you are. Olivia: If I think so, I think the same of you. Viola: Then think you right; I am not what I am. Olivia: I would you were as I would have you be. Viola: Would it be better, madam, than I am? I wish it might, for now I am your fool.
~ William Shakespeare
I'll follow this good man, and go with you; And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.
~ William Shakespeare
for there is no Christian, that means to be saved by believing rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness.
~ William Shakespeare