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False Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.
- Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!
- Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
- . . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou…
- To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.
- Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis…
- How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,…
- To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
- False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
- Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
- In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
- But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without…
- And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14
- Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth…
- Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have…
- DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave…
- If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
- RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
- Some true love turned and not a false turned true.
- This above all - to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to…
- Framed to make women false.
- This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to…
- In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
- How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!
- Thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not…
More False Quotes
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
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- Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world… — Sai Baba
- An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often… — Russell Baker
- You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
- I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip… — Alan Ball
- I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney… — Roseanne Barr
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Ethel Barrymore
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios.… — John Belushi
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce