Deborah Norville Quotes

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Everything can look good in theory and in practice it all falls apart.

It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.