Mark Twain Quotes

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

In life, unfortunately, I've had multiple experiences where people that I thought I could depend on have switched up, or I've caught them in lies, and their true colours have shown.

She was incurably dishonest.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

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

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

... a lying son of a bitch.

Each man swore to do his best To damn and perjure all the rest

I wouldn't trust [Richard] Nixon from here to that phone.

Knavery seems to be so much the striking feature of its [America's] inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they become aliens to this Kingdom.

He [Henry Clay] is certainly the basest, meanest scoundrel that ever disgraces the image of God—nothing too mean or low for him to condescend to.

[Describing member of Congress:] 80 percent were hypocrites. 80 percent, liars. 80 percent, serious sinners.... There is always boozing and floozing.

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.