Shakespeare Quotes About Appearance and Reality
22 quotes across 9 plays.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest, That I protest I simply am a maid.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together:
All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players:
Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye: I feel my heart new opened.
Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms,
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.
The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.
Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under 't.
Men should be what they seem, / Or those that be not, would they might seem none!
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
All that glisters is not gold;
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!