Shakespeare Quotes About Disguise and Deception

    19 quotes across 7 plays.

    Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages;

    Guiderius·Cymbeline·Act 4, Scene 2

    Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

    Guiderius·Cymbeline·Act 4, Scene 2

    Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night, Are they not but in Britain?

    Imogen·Cymbeline·Act 3, Scene 4

    Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter.

    Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

    Lucio·Measure for Measure·Act 1, Scene 4

    For truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

    Mariana·Measure for Measure·Act 5, Scene 1

    I am a plain-dealing villain.

    I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?

    I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

    There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

    I am a villain; if I do not love her, I am a Jew.

    When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

    I am not what I am.

    Iago·Othello·Act 1, Scene 1

    The Moor is of a free and open nature / That thinks men honest that but seem to be so.

    Iago·Othello·Act 1, Scene 3

    Thus have I politicly begun my reign, / And 'tis my hope to end successfully.

    Then think you right: I am not what I am.

    Viola·Twelfth Night·Act 3, Scene 1

    What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?

    Who is Silvia? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she;

    I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives.