John Dryden Quotes

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

… they seem to be such as would not swear, whore, nor be drunk, but they would lie, cozen and deceive.

The morality of [Donald] Trump’s lying didn’t bother me, but he is a stupid liar.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.