Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

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

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words.

As to you, sir, treacherous in private friendship and … a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an imposter, whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.

I can't stand lying. I can't stand liars.

I know what it feels like to lie to people. I know what it feels like for people not to trust you.

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

I am falser than vows made in wine.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good at.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.