Mark Frost Quotes

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say.

I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.

Too often in politics the stiletto is slipped between your shoulder blades, while its wielder continues to smile sweetly.

A man had rather a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish to be told.

...if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

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