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Quotes About Dishonesty

One crime has to be concealed by another.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.
~ Jeff Beck
Liars are always most disposed to swear.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it.
~ Nate Lowman
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
~ Sophocles
What a terrible thing for a man to believe! Since when is dishonesty a group characteristic? You have no monopoly on the truth.
~ Reginald Rose
Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it. They will use whatever means are most convenient to that end and will seek to justify them by the most plausible arguments they are able to devise.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.
~ Remy de Gourmont
Hay gente tan corrupta que no se da cuenta de su propia corrupción
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
Every word was a cheat. Every thought and feeling was false. I played the game. Everything I touched, I cheapened.
~ Rich Shapero
Walshes had been taking advantage of gullibility and stupidity ever since they conned their fellow cavemen out of their spears. Highwaymen, pirates, swindlers, and card sharks . . . their family history was both colorful and dark.
~ Kelley Armstrong
mendacious, implying that he had got into a brawl
~ Ken Follett
she likes a rigged game.
~ Ken Kesey
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
~ Mark Twain
Todos aplaudimos, con asombrosa deshonestidad colectiva.
~ William Napier
No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,And crook the pregnant hinges of the kneeWhere thrift may follow fawning.
~ William Shakespeare
False as dicers' oaths.
~ William Shakespeare
There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark,But he's an arrant knave.
~ William Shakespeare
A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper.
~ William Shakespeare
Framed to make women false.
~ William Shakespeare
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
~ William Shakespeare
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
~ William Shakespeare