I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors,
now the whole world is here for me to see.
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The path to the truth is found in the spaces between the lies.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
... The slyness of the rascal tickled the boy so much that he pushed back his hat, clapped his hands, and burst out laughing as he had not done before for weeks. Every one looked round surprised, and Sancho regarded them with a mildly inquiring air, ...
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
He is a self-made man and worships his creator.
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
... looking down upon those beautiful shoulders and white arms and head of soft and shining hair, it was hard to believe she was in some conspiracy of which she had kept her husband in ignorance with the slyness of a snake. I felt sorry for him. So at the moment of my first doubt of her, I found that pity--begging your pardon!--had at last made me ready to forget that I had never liked him or his cold ways, and ready ...
... had his postman's knock rung through the dark of the house when the eldest of the three grim men would always run to the door. O, what a face had he. There was more slyness in it than ever his beard could hide. He would put out a gristly hand; and into it Amuel Sleggins would put the letter from China, and rejoice that his duty was done, and would turn and stride away. And the fields lit up ...
... on very fairly well with Sergeant Cuff so far. But the slyness with which he slipped in that last question put me on my guard. In plain English, I didn't at all relish the notion of helping his inquiries, when those inquiries took him (in the capacity of snake in the grass) ...
... not that his face was much lined, but all the blood and colour seemed to have faded from his body, and even his eyes, which last he kept usually closed, as though the light distressed him. There was an unspeakable degree of slyness in his expression, which kept me ill at ease; he seemed to lie there with his arms folded, like a spider waiting for prey. His speech was very deliberate and courteous, but scarce louder than ...
... evening. I have just returned from St. Germain. Everything is settled--with more slyness on my part. I begin to think I am a born Jesuit; there must have been some detestable sympathy between Father Benwell ...
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