Top 30 Quotes About Prevarication
#1. The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
Robin Marantz Henig
#2. Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.
Norman Mailer
#3. My science is based in voraciously wandering fact, luscious speculation, and spontaneous theory with a dash of prevarication. All of which are most likely to come true.
J. DeWayne Pierce
#4. Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all.
Jeff VanderMeer
#5. Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.
Elbert Hubbard
#6. Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.
Charles Todd
#7. Well said, young lady. You've ensnared me in a petite prevarication.
Richard Kadrey
#8. Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.
Steven Erikson
#9. Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into any society or profession whatever, will be less surprised to find prevarication still prevailing, where perjury has led the way.
Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal
#10. The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.
George Eliot
#11. If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
Goldwin Smith
#12. Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication
in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.
Rachel Cohn
#13. Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.
Karen Chance
#14. The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
P. J. O'Rourke
#15. I came to this office to solve problems and not pass them on to future presidents and future generations.
George W. Bush
#16. No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!
Marcus Aurelius
#17. I like the underwear, Tess. Now take it off.
Jenna Harte
#18. Keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.
Johnny Depp
#19. Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.
Timothy Leary
#20. Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint.
Sherman Alexie
#21. I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority.
James Luther Adams
#22. Leo stepped toward Piper. "What - what are those?
Rick Riordan
#24. We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
Mitt Romney
#25. It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.
Yoshihiko Noda
#26. If I were a candy bar I'd want to be a snicker, because then I'd have the last laugh!!
Neil Leckman
#27. To be miles from defeat you have to be taking steps to victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
Karen Salmansohn
#29. We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.
David Gemmell
#30. By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
