False face must hide what the false heart doth know. – William Shakespeare Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7. Macbeth to his wife.
Bid them wash their faces, And keep their teeth clean. – William Shakespeare Coriolanus, Act 2, Scene 3.
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o’ the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, – I banish you. – William Shakespeare Coriolanus, Act 3, Scene 3.
There’s neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
Lord, Lord! how subject we old men are to this vice of lying. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 2.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 4.
Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither. – William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part 3, Act 5, Scene 6.
This is a slight unmeritable man, Meet to be sent on errants. – William Shakespeare Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 1.
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. – William Shakespeare Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3.
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face. – William Shakespeare King Lear, Act 4, Scene 2.
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? – William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 2.
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. – William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 2.
There’s small choice in rotten apples. – William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew, Act 1, Scene 1.
Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? – William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3.
Go, hang yourselves all! you are idle shallow things: I am not of your element. – William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4.
