Elspeth Huxley Quotes

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

Elspeth Huxley

• Artist
• Practice
• Social Life
• Illusionist

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• When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Control

• I believe that sex is good and so is the body.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Sex

• True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • True
  • Picture

• If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Real
  • Want
  • See

• I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Future
  • Tomorrow

• I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Energy
  • City
  • New York

• Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Judgment
  • Standardized

• I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Children
  • Job
  • Book

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Live
  • Fashion
  • Sky

• I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Life
  • Rest

• We never do the same set twice... We play for at least two and a half hours, sometimes longer, so there's a lot of songs from all the records. And we know there's a stable we as fans would want to hear, so we always give them, then we change up a bunch of songs and throw in a couple new ones.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Couple

• I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Up
  • Long
  • Business

• Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

  

  Charles Eames
  • Design

• We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • World
  • Winning
  • Beach

• The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

  

  David Antin

• I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Way
  • Better

• Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it’s that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Greatness
  • Relationships
  • Inspire

• Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Artist
  • Birds
  • Aesthetics

• Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

  

  Jennie Garth
  • Age
  • Lazy

• To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

  

  Elspeth Huxley
  • Artist
  • Practice
  • Social Life