Christopher Moore Quotes

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

I cannot accept fraud.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which 'basic trust' is lost.

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

No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.

Arlen Specter is a scoundrel.

Everyone cheats.

Fake is, like, the worst word you could possibly use to describe anything, you know?

Whether it is throwing people under the bus or writing a lie on the side of one: Britain deserves better than Boris Johnson.

I get really upset when I'm around liars.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

he ones that bother me the most are the media saying, "He's like the next Bill Hicks." It's supposed to be complimentary, but then all these Bill Hicks fans show up thinking you're going to be like him, and then go, "You're no Bill Hicks." And I'm like, "I never wanted to try to be like him, I don't think I'm anything like him at all, and now you're mad at me for not being him because a journalist didn't have a better reference."

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

If you have the winning cards, why cheat?

I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.