"tangled web" may refer to:
- "Oh, what a tangled web we weave / When first we practise to deceive!" -- a line from Marmion (poem), an epic poem by Walter Scott
- Spider-Man's Tangled Web
- the "Tangled Web" episode of Xiaolin Showdown, introducing the Tangle Web Comb
Famous quotes containing the words tangled web, tangled and/or web:
“O what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive!
But when we’ve practised quite a while”
—J. R. Pope (1909–1991)
“It was a tangled and perplexing thicket, through which we stumbled and threaded our way, and when we had finished a mile of it, our starting-point seemed far away. We were glad that we had not got to walk to Bangor along the banks of this river, which would be a journey of more than a hundred miles. Think of the denseness of the forest, the fallen trees and rocks, the windings of the river, the streams emptying in, and the frequent swamps to be crossed. It made you shudder.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)