The stupid delude themselves that anything is possible; the clever, that whatever they cannot do cannot be done.
Apr 302013
Lying
To a quite unwreckable Lie,
To a most impeccable Lie!
To a water-tight, fire-proof, angle-iron, sunk-hinge, time-lock, steel-faced Lie!
Not a private hansom Lie,
But a pair-and-brougham Lie,
Not a little-place-at-Tooting, but a country-house-with-shooting
And a ring-fence-deer-park Lie.
—-Kipling
Apr 022013
Optimism is the philosophy of despair.
Mar 182013
We lie first about money, then about art; sex runs a distant third.
Mar 112013
Nothing is more exasperating than being lied to when both of you know and neither will admit it; yet this goes on all the time.
Jan 312013
It is the truth in the stereotype that is objectionable.
Jan 112013
Your terrible secret is that you have no terrible secret.
Jan 042013
The successful liar is never forgiven for showing us how tawdry the stories are in which we are eager to believe.
Nov 132012
Sometimes one lies to avoid the appearance of lying.
Nov 122012
One must strip away the outer layers of deceit and pretense from a person to reveal the inner core of pretense and deceit.