Lois Wyse Quotes

Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

A friend advises in his interest, not yours.

It is not wise to trust a man with a deceitful speech ... for he will definitely manipulate your sayings and give a different meaning to your saying and decisions, for he would not care to keep the truth intact

All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.

You've just got to be wary around people. You don't know what they want from you. Just in L.A., people have questionable motives. Everybody's kind of got an angle. You've got to be aware of that.

I don't think it's good to interact with people with a certain agenda in mind.

Now, I know a lot of things in the big man's world are not what they seem: a lot of people are out for themselves, and you can't always trust what someone says.

I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.

We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.