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> [Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/tell-the-truth-so-as-to-puzzle-and-confound-your-adversaries/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

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## More by Henry Wotton

> [Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/hanging-was-the-worst-use-a-man-could-be-put-to/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/an-ambassador-is-an-honest-man-sent-abroad-to-lie-and-intrigue-for/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/an-ambassadore-is-a-man-of-virtue-sent-to-lie-abroad-for-his-country/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/i-am-but-a-gatherer-and-disposer-of-other-men-s-stuff-at-my-best-value/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/by-weaker-accents-what-s-your-praise-when-philomel-her-voice-doth/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/take-heed-of-thinking-the-farther-you-go-from-the-church-of-rome-the/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/ambassadors-are-honest-men-sent-abroad-to-lie-for-their-countries/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [Broadway is a place where people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/broadway-is-a-place-where-people-spend-money-they-haven-t-earned-to/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/tell-the-truth-so-as-to-puzzle-and-confound-your-adversaries/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/how-happy-is-he-born-and-taught-that-serves-not-another-s-will-whose/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/the-itch-of-disputation-will-prove-the-scab-of-the-church/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/who-god-doth-late-and-early-pray-more-of-his-grace-than-gifts-to-send/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/virtue-is-the-roughest-way-but-proves-at-night-a-bed-of-down/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/you-violets-that-first-appear-by-your-pure-purple-mantles-known-like/)

[Henry Wotton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wotton/)

> [You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wotton/you-meaner-beauties-of-the-night-that-poorly-satisfy-our-eyes-more-by/)

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