Shirley MacLaine Quotes

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

I think all politicians lie.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

I am falser than vows made in wine.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

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.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Everything would have been all right if Hitler hadn't lied to me.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.