Delia Smith Quotes

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

If you are cheating on the SATs so your son or daughter can get into Yale, what do you think it's going to be like for them when they show up to Yale, and they should be at a completely different school?

I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas.

Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.

Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.

Cheating is nothing to be proud of.

The cheaters are going to find way to cheat over and over again.

As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.

I can't deny that I was an intellectual prostitute along the way many, many times in college. I can remember one examination where they said. "Describe the Devil," and in order to get 12 points on that question one had to say that the Devil was red and had a forked tail and cloven hoofs and fangs and horns on his head. So I merrily wrote this answer down and got my 12 points. I always got straight hundreds in Bible study.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

If you know how to cheat, start now.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

That wasn't because of money, it was because I had a job for the next two days and wanted to work. So I faked a test. That was over two years ago. Why has there been no issue about it since then?

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

It won’t go over with the WASPS. They take a dim view of looking over your shoulder at someone else’s exam paper. They go in more for stealing from stockholders and banks.