T. S. Eliot Quotes

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which 'basic trust' is lost.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

I love the characters in 'Wolf of Wall Street' and 'House of Cards.'

When I was writing 'Trick it,' the inspiration for this song came out of nowhere! The song is about the little white lies you tell to people you care about, even though you can always tell the truth.

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

Every time you come in from cheating on someone, they'll just whip out the most adorable term of endearment. Like, they'll wake up, bright and early, sleep in their eyes and say: "Hey, perfect."

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

You have to learn to read between the lies.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.