Quotes of Fraud - somelinesforyou

“ The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. ”

- Pearl Bailey

“ We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. ”

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. ”

- Phaedrus

“ When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. ”

- Bible

“ If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ One may outwit another, but not all the others. ”

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“ There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ”

- John Locke

“ The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature. ”

- Kareem Abdul Jabbar

“ I don't know what cheating is. ”

- Barry Bonds

“ No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you. ”

- Tommy Lasorda

“ When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day. ”

- John Dryden

“ The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ”

- Charles Simmons

“ A bad forgery's the ultimate insult. ”

- Jonathan Gash

“ A rich man is an honest man — no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. ”

- George Santayana

“ Draw the curtain, the fraud is over. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. ”

- Linus Carl Pauling

“ If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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