Prevarication Quotes

“Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.”

“I don't like cryptic conversation. They require a prevaricating nature, which I do not possess. So either you.”

“Wiktionary: Prevarication”

“Wash me from mine enquiry, and cleanse me from my sin; for I acknowledge my prevarications and my sin continually before Thee.”

“We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom.”

“We cannot pardon. We are to say what we take the law to be ; if we do not speak our real opinions, we prevaricate with God and our own consciences.”

“If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.”

“I am clearly at opinion that they had no other power, and they could not lawfully do, what I think the record shows they did, constitute themselves a court to try and condemn you for prevarication.”

“Thou hast prevaricated with thy Friend,
By under-hand Contrivances undone me:
And, while my open nature trusted in thee,
Thou hast stepped in between me and my Hopes,
And ravished from me all my Soul held dear.”

“As to the prevarications which the court charge upon you, I think they must have had an erroneous of opinion of what constituted prevarications, as they certainly had, in my opinion of their power, to take notice of it as an offence.”

“From all the rest I single out you,
You are to die-let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,
I am exact and merciless, but I love you— there is no escape for you.”

“Prevarications intertwined have ascended upon my neck, he hath thrust at my strength, God hath delivered me into hands, that I cannot rise up; prevarications intertwined ascending upon the neck, denotes that falses ascended towards things interior or rational.”

“...yet when someone like me comes along and shows your hypocrisy and the dangers of that hypocrisy, and of the willingness of prevaricating lobbyists like Hal Halpin to hide what the industry does and how it does it, then you all want to "ban" me from my rejoinders.”

“Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.”

“The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?”

“Mr. Denman was not prepared to vote all the witnesses guilty of prevarication, without having the evidence previously printed. He had voted for sending the editor to Newgate, because he had heard what he said at the bar of that House.”

“But I'm not experienced!' 'You're not home yet!' 'I've been struggling for years to get a fur coat. How did you get yours?' 'I left off struggling.'
Judge: You are prevaricating, sir. Did you or did you not sleep with this woman?'
Co-respondent: ‘Not to wink, my Lord!”

“You come from one of the latter and you're being asked to explain yourself to one of the former. Prevarication will be more difficult than you might imagine; neutrality is probably impossible. You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate set of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence.”

“Mariano Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.”

“My books are not quite the books I was to write when you and I were young. But I have made at worst some neat, precise and joyous little tales which prevaricate tenderly about the universe and veil the pettiness of human nature with screens ...”