#shone

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#every #every man #labor #lives #man

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#dishonest #free #heart #life #man

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. ↗

— Chilon

#dishonest #gain #loss #moment #other

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#badly #cannot #dishonest #doing #done

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#cart #dishonest #honest people #i #i was raised

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid. ↗

— Keith Miller

#afraid #because #book #called #dishonest

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. ↗

— John Milton

#confined #confusion #darkness #disorder #fled

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies. ↗

— Roger Moore

#comfort #dishonest #get #going #good

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#am #dishonest #fan #fiction #historical