Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right?" Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned at Lady Gravely's that nonsense which can be misheard is a very good way to lie without getting caught. People just insert whatever they think you must be doing, and - having lied to themselves on your behalf - are disinclined to check up on you. Nick Harkaway
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Take some more tea, " the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly." I've had nothing yet, " Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." than nothing." opinion, " said Alice. - Lewis Carroll
  2. I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. - Steven Wright
  3. Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. - Lewis Carroll
  4. We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing! - Graham Chapman
  5. I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too. - Steve Martin
More Quotes By Nick Harkaway
  1. And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.
  2. Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the...
  3. A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing...
  4. Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world - and having, inevitably, been created out of an individual's relationship with the world - that information retains some connection with its author...
  5. Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also as components that can change.. Now, though, we live in...
Related Topics