William Shakespeare on Truth
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“And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill.”
“Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”
“When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.”
“If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.”
“To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
“Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retail'd to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.”
“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 any man.”
“Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd; Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay; But best is best, if never intermix'd.”
“Tell truth and shame the devil. If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither, And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.”
“But 'tis strange: 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.”