To be better it is first necessary to pretend to be; and objections to improvement often masquerade as objections to pretense.
Sep 042013
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
Aug 302013
No one wants equality except with his betters.
Aug 262013
If you think about whether you are genuine, too late.
Aug 202013
We are such accomplished liars because we get so much practice on ourselves.
Jun 132013
The greater good is evil: the larger truth is a lie.
May 162013
To listen to people with talent, you might almost believe that there is no such thing.
Apr 302013
The stupid delude themselves that anything is possible; the clever, that whatever they cannot do cannot be done.
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.