# Name that literary quote!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-literary-quote/563825>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 11, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-literary-quote/563825 "2010-12-11T23:47:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-literary-quote/563825/1 "2010-12-11T23:47:14Z")

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Hi folks, I’m trying to track down the source of an oft-repeated quote, and the exact wording:

“Believing so, doth not make it so.” or something like that. Perhaps, “Speaking so…” I can’t remember. Old timey English of course, maybe Shakespearean. It’s been bugging me. Anybody recognize it?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-literary-quote/563825/2 "2010-12-12T03:19:34Z")

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Moved MPSIMS --\> Cafe Society.

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**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-literary-quote/563825/3 "2010-12-12T03:42:01Z")

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Don’t know if this is what you mean, but Hamlet said “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”.