Michael Gilbert famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

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