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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 don't want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything that's a lead.

  

  Donald Faison

• The enterprise cloud is a very secure cloud at this point.

  

  Aneel Bhusri

• The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.

  

  Peter Beard
  • Children
  • Family
  • Marriage

• '...Cocaine. The stuff is everywhere.'

  

  John Updike

• God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Work
  • God
  • Age

• ... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Religion
  • Arrogance

• My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Up
  • Great
  • Father

• I've always been the type of person that has told friends, if they're going through a rough time, I'm always there to talk to.

  

  John Francis Daley
  • Time
  • Friends

• We believe it will be hard to accumulate enough reserves to fully insulate the state from a spending reduction.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Believe
  • Reduction
  • Reserves

• 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