Deception In Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings

See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out. — William Shakespeare

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating. — Graham Norton

And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. — William Shakespeare

As with any great literature, there are probably as many ways to read William Faulkner's writing as there are readers. There are hundreds of books devoted to interpretations of his novels, numerous biographies, and every year high school teachers and college professors guide their students through one or more of the novels. But after all is said and done, there are the books themselves, and the pleasure of reading them can be deep and lasting. The language Faulkner uses ranges from the poetically beautiful, nearly biblical to the coarse sounds of rough dialect. His characters linger in the mind, whether for their heroism or villainy, their stoicism or self-indulgence, their honesty or deceitfulness or self-deception, their wisdom or stupidity, their gentleness or cruelty. In short, like Shakespeare, William Faulkner understood what it means to be human. — William Faulkner

I've never known a tranquil atheist. Don't they always look like they just sat on a tack? — Vicki Covington

All my life people have assumed I'm stupid because I'm quiet, I never interrupt, and I follow directions. But I'm quiet because saying less is always more. — C.D. Reiss

As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America. — David Henry Hwang

After tonight, Safiya fon Hasstrel would be free. — Susan Dennard

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. — Charles Dickens

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could. — Paul Hogan

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. — William Shakespeare

Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive. — William Shakespeare

Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the ... enemy does much. — William Shakespeare

Men of my generation have had Spain in our hearts. It was there that they learned ... that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, and that there are times when courage is not rewarded. — Albert Camus