“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to weave.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“As palace mirror'd in the stream, as vapour mingled with the skies,
So weaves the brain of mortal man the tangled web of Truth and Lies.”
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
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“What a tangled web we weave when we practice to believe”
Robert M. Price (1954) American theologian
Robert M. Price, in The Psychology of Biblicism http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/art_biblicism.htm, a modification of the quote from Sir Walter Scott
“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
"Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue?"
“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
Canto VI, st. 17.
Variant: Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
Source: Marmion (1808)
“Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.”
John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel
Pt. I line 268.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“Inside every widow there's a spider that weaves it's webs in the corners of her heart.”
Avner Strauss (1954) Israeli musician
"Voices Within the Ark", ibid.