Maria Edgeworth Quotes

The man who is always watching for his own gain is a traitor at heart.

The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

We bought the son of a bitch, but he didn't stay bought.

A traitor to his country commits equal treason against mankind.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

You should never bury someone to forward your own personal interest. And I would never do that to anyone else on the planet.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

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.