Chapter TRUCKLE to TRUTH of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

TRUCKLE to TRUTH

TRUCKLE.—I cannot truckle to a fool of state,
Nor take a favour from the man I hate.

Churchill.—Epi. to Hogarth.

TRUE.—It is true,—without any slips of prolixity, or crossing the plain high-way of talk.

Shakespeare.—The Merchant of Venice, Act III. Scene 1. (Solanio to Salarino.)

This above all—To thine ownself be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3. (Polonius to Laertes.)

More strange than true.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus to Hippolyta.)

TRUMPET.—The Moor, I know his trumpet.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act II. Scene 1. (Iago to Cassio and Desdemona.)

Be thou the trumpet of our wrath,
And sullen presage of your own decay.

Shakespeare.—King John, Act I, Scene 1. (The King to Chatillon.)

TRUTH.—Magna est veritas, et prevalebit.
Truth is powerful, and she will prevail.
And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and mighty above all things.

1 Esdras, Chap.IV. Verse 41.

Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act V. Scene 1. (Isabel to the Duke.)

Princes, like beauties, from their youth
Are strangers to the voice of truth.

Gay.—Fable I. Line 5.

I hope there be truths.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 1. (Clown to Moth.)

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Swift.—Mary to Dr. Sheridan; Shakespeare, King Henry IV. Part I. Act III. Scene 1.

’Tis strange, but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto XIV. Stanza 101.

Truth and fiction are so aptly mix’d
That all seems uniform, and of a piece.

Roscommon.—Horace’s Art of Poetry.

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye,
Men will believe, because they love the lie;
But truth herself, if clouded with a frown,
Must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

Churchill.—Epi. to Hogarth, Line 291.