"Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons."

-- Robert Greene

#Honesty Quotes #Air Quotes #Quality Quotes

“He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others. His intense mind and powerful feelings would, I truly believe, have done the world some service, had his life been spared but he was of too sensitive a nature and thus he was destroyed!”
“It's always better when we're together, somewhere in between together.”
“If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.”
“Allowing short selling is allowing people to sell - instead of having to buy the stock and then sell it, which doesn't do much; allow them to sell it, and then buy it. In which case they can express that information and the idea is that you would get more accurate valuation of companies by letting people express both their positive information and their negative information through either long or short selling.”
“Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?”
“I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.”
“I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.”
“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”

Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.349, Random House

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