Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
Maniacal self-promoter …. Makes Machiavelli look like a simple, straightforward kinda guy.
Characterizing Richard Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary of State (Democrat):
the most dishonest individual I ever met in my life.
Referring to Richard M. Nixon:
No human beings, black, yellow, or white could be quite as untruthful, as insincere, as arrogant—in short, as untrustworthy in every way—as the Russians.
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.
"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial
All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.
[Describing his opponent:] ... a cross between a hyena and a mongrel ... begotten in a graveyard at midnight, suckled by a sow and educated by a fool.
The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.
I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had.
She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.
I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr and Jeremy Piven where they just give you that vibe, 'This guy's going to play someone a little venal.'
She was incurably dishonest.
There's a degree of deception in silence.
Nixon is a double-barrelled, treble-shotted twister, as my old history master would have remarked; and the fact has been a matter of universal knowledge since at least 1952, when, if I remember aright the joke, “Would you buy a second-hand car from this man?” began to circulate.
… a damnable villain
The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.
He [Henry Clay] is a bad man, an impostor, a creator of wicked schemes.
Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct
Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.
[Lyndon Johnson was] the epitome of the unprincipled politician.