quotations about fraud
Fraud may consist as well in the suppression of what is true as in the representation of what is false. If a man professing to answer a question, select those facts only which are likely to give a credit to the person of whom he speaks, and keep back the rest, he is a more artful knave than he who tells a direct falsehood.
J. HEATH
Tapp v. Lee, 1803
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
Am I a fraud, then, or a scholar? I am both, of course, as we all are. Half of what I know I do not believe. Half of what I believe I cannot prove. For the rest, I hope to muddle through and my mistakes go without comment.
NICK HARKAWAY
Gnomon
Fraud is the daughter of greed.
JONATHAN GASH
The Great California Game
Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Secrecy is a mark of Fraud.
LORD COKE
Twyne's Case, 1602
As to relief against fraud, no invariable rules can be established, Fraud is infinite; and were a Court of equity once to lay down rules, how far they would go, and no farther, in extending their relief against it, or to define strictly the species or evidence of it, the jurisdiction would be cramped and perpetually eluded by new schemes, which the fertility of man's invention would contrive.
LORD HARDWICKE
letter to Lord Kaims
Fraud is infinite in variety; sometimes it is audacious and unblushing; sometimes it pays a sort of homage to virtue, and then it is modest and retiring; it would be honesty itself if it could only afford it.
LORD MACNAGHIEN
Reddaway v. Banham, 1896
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
LORD COKE
Twyne's Case, 1602
Fraud is like any other virus. The fraudster will go somewhere else and mutate the fraud. We are constantly adjusting our algorithms to look for fraudulent behaviour.
MATHEW RATTY
"The Experts", Switzer, November 23, 2018
Fraud is often hard to uncover and can lie hidden for months or years before being discovered. During that time, Fraud is like an infection eating away undetected until the pain is finally felt, but even then the financial and emotional impact continues.
MARTIN T. BIEGELMAN
Faces of Fraud: Cases and Lessons from a Life Fighting Fraudsters
I know of no case where by implication of law the duty of clearing himself from an imputed fraud rests on the defendant.
LORD WATSON
Cavendish Bentinck v. Fenn, 1887
I never was in such a horrid office ... It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?
NEVIL SHUTE
Ruined City
You've never heard of a fraudster involved in a shoot-out, of the "Come and get me, copper!" sort. Or of some con artist needing helicopter gunships to bring him. No, we subtle-mongers do it with the smile, the promise, the hint.
JONATHAN GASH
The Great California Game
Typically, those committing fraud use psychological strategies to distance themselves from any sense of guilt. Criminologists refer to this as "neutralisation". A common form of neutralisation is to view the victim as in some way to blame. Another is to depersonalise or belittle the victim. For example, the perpetrators of a series of frauds on eBay referred to their 3,000 victims as "the idiots".
MARK FENTON-O'CREEVY
attributed, "Getting into the mind of a fraudster", Raconteur, August 23, 2017
I do not understand legal fraud. To my mind it has no more meaning than legal heat or legal cold, legal light or legal shade. There never can be a well-founded complaint of legal fraud, or of anything else, except where some duty is shown and correlative right, and some violation of that duty and right.
LORD BRAMWELL
Weir v. Bell, 1878
If you fool people to get their money, that's fraud; if you fool them to get their votes, that's politics.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
It is fraud in law if a party makes representations which he knows to be false, and injury ensues, although the motives from which the representations proceeded may not have been bad.
NICHOLAS CONYNGHAM TINDAL
Foster v. Charles, 1830