Doug Liman Quotes

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

It is impossible to deny that dishonest men often grow rich and famous, becoming powerful in their parish or in parliament. Their portraits grace shop windows; and they live and die respected. This success is theirs; yet it is not the success which a noble soul will envy.

I prefer a real villain to a false hero.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

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

The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.