Evasion Quotes

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I spend a substantial amount of my time endeavoring to fend off questions, and worry terribly that I might end up being too clear.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

I am not going to comment on what I did or did not say back in the late '90s.

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!

You'd make a great Secretary of State because State Department personnel don't answer questions completely either.

Liberals in their meetings utter bold words; they strut, grimace belligerently, and then issue a weasel-worded statement which has tremendous implications, if read between the lines.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I have to tell them something that is going on. "What time is it, Mitch?" "Uh, that guy is eating a hamburger." "Shi*, I had to be somewhere..."

The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

terminological inexactitude

After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

It is easier to stay out than get out.