Awkward Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

— Lord Chesterfield

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second…

— Thucydides

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the…

— Federica Montseny

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his…

— Blaise Pascal

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the…

— Aristotle

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more,…

— Francis Bacon

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really…

— George Bernard Shaw