Quotes About Truth

He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.

Truth hath a quiet breast.

"Convey," the wise it call. "Steal" ' foh! a fico for the phrase!

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity;And pity 'tis 'tis true.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show:False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Modest doubt is call'dThe beacon of the wise, the tent that searchesTo the bottom of the worst.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster.

Nature her custom holds,Let shame say what it will.

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,He says he does, being then most flattered.

Nature's above art in that respect.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

Report me and my cause aright.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

O, what may man within him hide,Though angel on the outward side!

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.

O! what authority and show of truthCan cunning sin cover itself withal.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, "That, that is, is."

Hamlet: His beard was grizzled, no?Horatio: It was, as I have seen it in his life,A sable silver'd.

'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.