Thomas Otway Quotes

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

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

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

The connection between humbug and politics is too long established to be challenged.

He is only honest who is not discovered.

What’s the difference between my fabricating reports and your letting your agents do it? At least mine make sense.

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

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

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.