Quotes About Equivocation

Traduttore, traditore.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

I mistook you for a metaphor.

when you really parsed what the man had said, he in fact had said nothing.

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words, and the direct tendency of their doctrines, then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.

Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever.

There's a thin line between mockery and endorsement.

It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

There were reasons to leave, and reasons to stay, and all of it was the same.

Sometimes. And sometimes not.

plausible deniability.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

You'd quit long before she ever would." This stopped me. "What makes you say that?" "Jennie has an agenda. You're still equivocating. I watched you observing, taking notes. Hugging the sidelines. Not sure if this is your milieu—just like you were in seminary: never sure if you should be a minister or a writer, so not committing to either." "I still wonder if I made the right choice," I said. "But am I really that obvious?

deceivers shall always be at the junction of double mindedness

But it was a shouldn't with a hint of should.

tergiversation and

I'd become quite a master prevaricator.