False Accounting

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or accounting:

    “Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)