Virginia Woolf Quotes

He [Henry Clay] is certainly the basest, meanest scoundrel that ever disgraces the image of God—nothing too mean or low for him to condescend to.

He is only a filthy-brained child, conceived in ruthlessness and dedicated to the proposition that Judas Iscariot was a piker.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

I prefer a real villain to a false hero.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.