Leslie Hore-Belisha Quotes

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

I like to show my cards and see people's reactions.

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

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.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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

I can bluff with the best of them.

I have little time for sincerity.

When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

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

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.