A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

The lie is a condition of life.

I’m half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I’d be in a hell of a mess!

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Action is character.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Dogs never bite me – just humans.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

The worst crime is faking it.

The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in ‚The Dark Knight‘ had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that’s how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it’s a totally different story.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.