Francis Quarles Quotes

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

It is a world of lies that permeates the Left

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The world makes liars of us all.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there

I don't wish to inhabit the human world under false pretences.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.