Deceptive famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
-- Ambrose Bierce

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Few things are more deceptive than memories.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
-- Larry Hagman

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Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
-- Michael Arndt

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As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.
-- Ngaio Marsh

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Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.
-- Robert Breault

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The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.
-- Scott McClellan

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The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
-- Woody Hayes

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Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
-- Lu Xun

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Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
I like to have a spray bottle filled with apple juice to spray onto my meat. Whether it's pork, chicken, or beef, it adds flavor. Also, it helps keep your meat a real golden mahogany-looking color and prevents it from turning black.
Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement.
[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.
When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.
The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.