VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

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.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

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.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

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.