“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.”

“What a tangled web we weave when we practice to believe”

“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.”

“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”

“The Earth does not belong to man; man belongs to Earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

“No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Becauseis one of the magical fantasy words likeandandthat have now passed into language.”

“Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.”

“The mind perceives … that it is higher than institutions, which are but the woof and web of its thought and will, which it weaves and outgrows, and weaves again.”

“Inside every widow there's a spider that weaves it's webs in the corners of her heart.”