William Shakespeare Quotes About Truth

• No legacy is so rich as honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  1604-5 Mariana to Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 3, sc.5, l.12-13.

• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Trust, Children

• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

• Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.121

• 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

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Winning, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

• I am as true as truth's simplicity,
  And simpler than the infancy of truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Simplicity, Infancy

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [176]

• Truth hath a quiet breast.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Quiet, Breasts

  1595 Mowbray. Richard II, act1, sc.3, l.95-6.

• Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Creativity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

• Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Color, Needs

• As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Light, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

• What, can the devil speak true?

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Devil, Speak

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 107

• The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Truth, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

• In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Truth, Character

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.486

• Time's glory is to command contending kings,
  To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Kings, Truth

• Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Chance

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [734]

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Bait, Carp

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

• When my love swears that she is made of truth,
  I do believe her, though I know she lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Sonnet 138

• Is not the truth the truth?

  William Shakespeare

  Truth

  William Shakespeare, Herbert Weil, Judith Weil (2007). “The First Part of King Henry IV”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

• Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Truth, Goes On

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.194

• O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Devil, Shame

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.684, BookCaps Study Guides

• But say, my lord, it were not regist'red,
  Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
  As 'twere retailed to all posterity,
  Even to the general all-ending day.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Age, Red

  William Shakespeare, William James Craig, Robert Hope Case (1907). “The Works of Shakespeare ....: Richard III, ed. by A.H. Thompson”

• If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Circumstances, Leading Me

  1600-1 Polonius, of Hamlet's madness. Hamlet, act 2, sc.2, l.159-61.

• But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Truth, Doors

  William Shakespeare (1850). “The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations”, p.856

• As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
  As sun to day, at turtle to her mate,
  As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Science, Moon

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing

• For to define true madness,
  What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Mad, Madness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 93

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