How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
Liars often set their own traps.
Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
… he must deceive, misrepresent, leave false impressions … and trust to charm, loyalty and the result to make up for it…. A great man cannot be a good man.
Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).
I lie as truthfully as I can.
A liar is full of oaths.
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are
How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
Fraud makes the world go round.
Jon Tester continues to tell Montanans one thing and then votes the other way when he's back in Washington D.C.
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.
Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.
Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.
