268 quotes found
“Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.”
“Some women are good-looking until they change their hairstyle.”
“To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.”
“The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubbl...”
“I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass”
“Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.”
“allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protec...”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
“Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sur...”
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
“And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
“Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.”
“Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.”
“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.”
“We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.”
“All charming people have something to conceal usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”
“You k'n hide de fier but what you guine do wid de smoke?”
“Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.”
