Jonathan Swift Quotes

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner hustler.

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

Nearly everyone who chooses to work for Donald Trump is disreputable in one way or another; Ali Baba didn't find 40 wise men in the cave. But to label everyone in Trumpworld a grifter misses important subtleties. It conflates grifters and grafters, and it ignores the crucial distinction between the two.

I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver.

I don't like a cheater.

Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

The three kinds of people I dislike most are Gossips, Liars, and Hypocrites.

Arlen Specter is a scoundrel.

I have always been kind of really good at faking the sick voice, and I never really realized it because I would never use that power for evil.

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

She was incurably dishonest.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!