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You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor

Selling something only to steal it back to sell again is not only dishonest, but highly profitable.


Jarod Kintz


#funny #profitable #selling #steal #funny

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#approval #black-humor #disapproval #dishonesty #funny

DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.


William Shakespeare


#deceit #dishonesty #falsehood #hearts #honesty

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.


Geoffrey Chaucer


#dishonesty #evil #gender #inequality #men

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18


Rudyard Kipling


#deceit #dishonesty #irony #lies #politics

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.


Sigmund Freud


#dishonesty #religion #religion

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.


Bertrand Russell


#cruelty #dishonesty #double-standards #hell #morality

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.


Erich Fromm


#double-standards #envy #hate #indignation #morality

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.


Criss Jami


#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore