"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to……" — W. Somerset Maugham
"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."
More Despicable Quotes
- Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. — Albert Camus
- I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say… — Jimmy Carter
- What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I… — Jimmy Carter
- A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and… — Matthew Henry
- How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such… — Albert Einstein
- All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- She's the coolest person in the world...I don't date what the person does...You know what I mean? I could have… — Adam Levine
- You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies. — Aesop
- ... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable… — Philip Zimbardo
- We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain… — Ugo Betti
- If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man… — Richard Baxter
- It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. — Marion Milner