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Ruth: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

And I'll be sworn, I have power to shame him hence. O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.— H. IV. PT. I. iii. L

Hence, thou suborn'd informer! a true soul, When most impeacht, stands least in thy controul. Poems If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed— H. ii. 2

Within the centre. Pr'ythee speak; Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou look'st Modest as justice, and thou seem'st a palace For the crown'd truth to dwell in: I'll believe thee, And make my senses credit thy relation, To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st Like one I lov'd indeed.— P. P. v. 1.

I am as true as truth's simplicity,— T. C. iii. 2.

And simpler than the infancy of truth. Methinks, the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retail'd to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.— R. III. iii. 1.

Sigh'd truer breath.— H. VIII. iii. 1.

Truth loves open dealing. Would, half my wealth— C. iv. 6.

Would buy this for a lie.— M. i. 3.

What, can the devil speak true That truth should be silent, I had almost forgot. A.C. ii.— A. C. ii. 2

Truth's a dog that must to kennel: he must be whipped and stink. out, when Lady the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.— K. L. i. 4.

An Unwelcome, Rarely Told

Life-loving sick men, when their deaths are near, No news but health from their physicians know. Poems.