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William Shakespeare Quotes about Lying - Page 4

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Joy, Soul

'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Faces

William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.209, Oxford University Press, USA

Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Farewell, Gentleman

Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?

William Shakespeare

Lying, Night, Light

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Thinking, Errors

BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.72, BookCaps Study Guides

Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.

William Shakespeare

Dream, Lying, Bed

William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.34, Oldcastle Books

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Sleep, Eye

William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Plays”, p.37

Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.

William Shakespeare

Weed, Lying, Dirty

William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.136

Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

William Shakespeare

Horse, Lying, Faces

'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [214]

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

William Shakespeare

Lying, Historical, Virtue

William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons, John Thompson (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida”, p.242

Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Deceit, Fortune

William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays”, p.50

Which means she to deceive, father or mother?

William Shakespeare

Mother, Father, Lying

William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.2601, BookCaps Study Guides

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

William Shakespeare

Witty, Fun, Lying

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.232

Tis better using France than trusting France; Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, Which He hath given for fence impregnable, And with their helps only defend ourselves; In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Sea, Safety

William Shakespeare (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens ...”, p.73

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare

Lying, Flower, Men

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.231, Cengage Learning EMEA

Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

William Shakespeare

Marriage, Husband, Lying

'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [31]

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

Truth, Honesty, Lying

Sonnet 138

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

William Shakespeare

Fear, Halloween, Lying

William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.50

We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Weed, Lying

William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Time, Lying

'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [329]

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