False face must hide what the false heart doth know.– William ShakespeareMacbeth, Act 1, Scene 7. Macbeth to his wife.
Bid them wash their faces, And keep their teeth clean.– William ShakespeareCoriolanus, 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 ShakespeareCoriolanus, Act 3, Scene 3.
There’s neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.– William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
Lord, Lord! how subject we old men are to this vice of lying.– William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 2.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?– William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 4.
Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.– William ShakespeareHenry VI, Part 3, Act 5, Scene 6.
This is a slight unmeritable man, Meet to be sent on errants.– William ShakespeareJulius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 1.
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.– William ShakespeareJulius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3.
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.– William ShakespeareKing Lear, Act 4, Scene 2.
It is certain that when he makes water, his urine is congealed ice.– William ShakespeareMeasure For Measure, Act 3, Scene 2.
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?– William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 2.
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.– William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 2.
