Chameleons Quotes

“The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change by using it to their advantage.”

“We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.”

“We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.”

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”

“Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.”

“All stories are connected. In the end everything is connected.”

“In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?"Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked:"I'm a liar by vocation," he shouted. "I lie with joy! Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance."Then more soberly, he added - his voice lowered - that the principal difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that in the former there exists only one truth, the truth as imposed by power, while in free countries every man has the right to defend his own version of events.Truth, he said, is a superstition.”

“We're only happy--truly happy--when it's forever after, but only children live in a world where things can last forever.”