Lying Quotes by William Shakespeare

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

— William Shakespeare

Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

— William Shakespeare

Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

— William Shakespeare

Good luck lies in odd numbers.

— William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

— William Shakespeare

So. Lie there, my art.

— William Shakespeare

If money go before, all ways do lie open.

— William Shakespeare

The let-alone lies not in your good will.

— William Shakespeare

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

— William Shakespeare

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

— William Shakespeare

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

— William Shakespeare

We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

— William Shakespeare

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

— William Shakespeare

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

— William Shakespeare

Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

— William Shakespeare

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

— William Shakespeare

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

— William Shakespeare

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not…

— William Shakespeare

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against…

— William Shakespeare

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The…

— William Shakespeare

Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's…

— William Shakespeare

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd…

— William Shakespeare

Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo:…

— William Shakespeare

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

— William Shakespeare

Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither,…

— William Shakespeare

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and…

— William Shakespeare

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself…

— William Shakespeare

There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy,…

— William Shakespeare

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his…

— William Shakespeare

O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In…

— William Shakespeare

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by…

— William Shakespeare

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter…

— William Shakespeare

You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest…

— William Shakespeare

Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring…

— William Shakespeare

“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills…

— William Shakespeare

I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot…

— William Shakespeare

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds…

— William Shakespeare

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it…

— William Shakespeare

Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My…

— William Shakespeare

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous;…

— William Shakespeare