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Truth Quotes by William Shakespeare
- The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
- Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
- Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but…
- As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all…
- The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
- And simple truth miscalled simplicity
- Truth hath a quiet breast.
- Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.
- 'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful…
- Is not the truth the truth?
- As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue
- Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies
- Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
- The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
- What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
- For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
- Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek…
- To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.
- No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
- This above all; to thine own self be true.
- False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
- My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
- And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence
- Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
More Truth Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov