Boast Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image “People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Deceiver Happy marriage Ifs Liars Marriage People Self Submit
I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars. — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful. — Luke James Copy Share Image
I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's… — Kirsten Prout Copy Share Image
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not every lies is a deceit, sometimes we have to lie to protects those we love. — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image