Emily Post Quotes

Cheating is only cheating when you get caught.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

One of the great strengths of the Republicans is that they have no guilt and no shame. They’ll say anything.

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.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy – it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

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.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.