Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Quotes

I think we're all guilty of mistaking the actors we've seen over and over again - we think we know them.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.

When you meet people you've previously worked with, it's definitely comfortable.

It's so nice when you go on to a job and you've worked with someone before.

It's always nice to see familiar faces.

If I walked down a street back home people would recognise me, but they wouldn't approach me.

The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.

Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes this whole inspection process and all the rigmarole surrounding it a total farce.

It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

Do you really think he untied you? .. He was just checking his kids handiwork.