"No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies."

--

Salvador de Madariaga

#War Quotes #Lying Quotes

“He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did to fool no one into believing they weren't bald. I resisted a sudden strong urge to tug away that piece and scream peekaboo! at his bare crown underneath.”
“Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him.”
“I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.”

Source : "'New Girl' Star Max Greenfield Writes Special 'Goop' Newsletter for Gwyneth Paltrow" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 18, 2012.
“It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.”
“Molly was committing dinner. . .”
“And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.”
“To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards ...”

Source : Dorothy Osborne (1903). “The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”
“It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.68, Yale University Press

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