"If the boy have not a woman's..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.
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More on Deception
“The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.”
“A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.”
“Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.”
More on Emotion
“A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.”
“The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?”
“Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.”