Deceiving Quote by John Milton Download Open image “The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.” — John Milton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deceiving Dumb Hideous Oracles Roof Running Voice
“The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking their own… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“It’s not true I think all politicians are morons. Morons are far too intelligent to be politicians.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Politicians can talk and talk and talk until they're silly, and they do nothing. — Carlos Beruff Copy Share Image
The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers. — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
“everything is normal we have our tv and mcdonalds people wash their cars on their driveways on a sunday afternoon and mow their lawns… — U.V. Ray Copy Share Image
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. — John Milton Copy Share Image
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? — John Milton Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image