Quotes About Truth

I have peppered two of them…. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

How long a time lies in one little word!

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,With windlasses and with assays of bias,By indirections find directions out.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.God save the king! Will no man say, amen?

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!

He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.

Let me tell the world.

The best in this kind are but shadows.

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord?Hamlet: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

An honest, exceeding poor man.

I'll prove more trueThan those that have more cunning to be strange.

Do not swear at all;Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,Which is the god of my idolatry.

But I have that within which passeth show;These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

A goodly apple rotten at the heart.O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Take note, take note, O world!To be direct and honest is not safe.

The saying is true, "The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red:If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.