Richard Whately Quotes

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

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

Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

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.

I cannot accept fraud.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

… a seditious faker.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

There are at least eighty liars in the convention.

The usual trade and commerce is cheating all around by consent.

A reforming age is always fertile of imposters.

There's a decadent glamour to falling apart, but not everyone can afford it.

Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds.

Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.