Quotes About Prevarication

I disappear for twenty minutes into Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier while John does the dishes, fighting past my initial irritation all the class nonsense and how no one will say anything of significance because it's simply not done to be explicit. Like in James or Wharton. Those novels where you're screaming at characters to go ahead already and blurt it out, save us a hundred pages of prevarication.

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

Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

Society was obsessed with invention, industrialization, incorporation, immigration, and, later, imperialism. It was indulgent of commercial speculation, social ostentation, and political prevarication but was indifferent to the special needs of immigrants and Indians and intolerant of African-Americans, labor unions, and political dissidents.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.