Logo
Quote by John Updike
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived po

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – John Updike

Category:
Golf
Author
John Updike
Read Quote

It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

Category:
Interviews
Author
John Updike
Read Quote

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

Category:
Art
Author
John Updike
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Honesty
category

In confession… we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are. – Louis Cassels

Category:
Honesty

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. – James Cardinal Gibbons

Category:
Honesty

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. – Book Of Common Prayer

Category:
Honesty

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Honesty

Random Quotes

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone. – Pamela Stephenson

Category:
alone

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. – George Andrew Olah

Category:
dating

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. – Desiderius Erasmus

Category:
Success

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Questions