William Shenstone Quotes
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
Quotes to Explore
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The Lord Jesus is "a friend who never changes." There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
J. C. Ryle
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Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
Anna Hutchison
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
Anne Carson
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The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired me in '73, and I left early in '81. I did everything from low puns to being editor-in-chief.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.
Rob Zombie
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Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
Scott Snyder
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When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
Seneca the Younger
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.
Jonathan Swift
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No one gets to their heaven without a fight - Armor and Sword (2007)
Neil Peart
Rush
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
