Quotes
Quotes about Fraud
When pious frauds and holy shifts
Are dispensations and gifts.
Thy steady temper, Portius,
Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar,
In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.
Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
We were halves throughout, and to that degree that methinks by outliving him I defraud him of his part.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
In the twentieth century, the secularists, still living off the spiritual capital of Christianity, often pretended to chide Christians for having invented the term "secularist," a term which, they said, was devoid of meaning. Their leaders knew very well, however, that secularism, like any other parasite, derives its sustenance from the object on which it feeds, and so they were rather pleased when milquetoast Christians timidly offered, as a definition of secularism, "living as though God did not exist." What Christians should have called it was, rather, "a contemptibly fraudulent way of living on the cheap, by reaping the maximum fruits of Christian effort, while contributing the minimum effort of your own." When secularists accused Christians of "living in the past," the Christians ought to have retaliated by pointing out that secularists were "living off the past." By the time they got around to doing so, however, the majority of secularists had become morally incapable of seeing the point.
No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.
The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, And me with thee hath ruined.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate, His tears pure messengers sent from his heart, His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
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.
