“ 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- Copy
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“ There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. ”
- Phaedrus- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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- Copy
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“ He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
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“ If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 3.8K
“ One may outwit another, but not all the others. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 3K
“ There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 721
“ 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- Copy
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“ For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ”
- Charles Simmons- Copy
- 3.9K
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 593
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
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