False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Nothing can come of nothing.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.