Michael Heseltine Quotes

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.

And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.

anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!