William Shakespeare Quotes about Lying

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Struggle, Fortitude

William Shakespeare (2001). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.490, Classic Books Company

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Memorable, Mind

'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

William Shakespeare

Liars, Lying, World

'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [148]

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

William Shakespeare

Beauty, Lying, Writing

Sonnet 17

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Grief, Grieving

William Shakespeare, Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1866). “Shakspeare's Sonnets never before interpreted: his private friends identified: together with a recovered likeness of himself. By G. Massey”, p.177

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

William Shakespeare

Leadership, Courage, Lying

'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 30

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Grief, Silence

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.410, Cengage Learning EMEA

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Heart, Eye

William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.116, Classic Books Company

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

William Shakespeare

Lying, Memorable, Faults

'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 31

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

William Shakespeare

Revenge, Lying, Enemy

William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakspere”, p.30

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Soul, Wicked

BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.339, BookCaps Study Guides

In delay there lies no plenty.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Procrastination, Delay

'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Bait, Carp

William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Lear. Othello”, p.47

Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?

William Shakespeare

Lying, Sassy, Monsters

William Shakespeare (1880). “The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and More Modern Editions”

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

William Shakespeare

Love, Lying, Lust

William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43

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 and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Men, Done

1598 Dogberry to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.1, l.208-12.

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

William Shakespeare

Peace, Lying, Order

'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Soldier, Deceit

BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.203, BookCaps Study Guides

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

William Shakespeare

Sweet, Lying, Kissing

'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

William Shakespeare

Funny, Sexy, Lying

William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.100, Cambridge University Press