Quotes About Dishonesty

When you apologize that much, there's something you aren't saying.

Even her heart lied to her...

Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves.

I smile. I lie.

Lies aren't just the things we tell -- they're the lives we lead.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

Politicians often lie.

I think all politicians lie.

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

Corruption is everywhere, man.

The only way to cover up a lie? Keep lying.

Corrupt people sometimes are smart; some of them are dull, but some of them are very smart. They can hide their corruption tactics.

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he's lying, but he wants to make sure you know it's a lie, and so he overacts and all but winks at you, and everybody in the world except for the girl he's talking to knows he's lying.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

For the next two years, journalists would dishonestly report that the U.S. president had called neo-Nazis 'fine people'.

Cheaters, I thought.

You're a terrible liar, boy," Rand called after us. "Is he right?" I asked quietly, once we'd put some distance between the guest cabin and us. "That I'm a terrible liar? No. I'm a fantastic liar.

One thing that never changed among humans: there were always those who wanted to get something for nothing. It was what kept hell in business.

He never took strong positions, positions where you knew where Lyndon stood," one student had said. "He was only interested in himself and what could help himself." The feeling in Washington was the same.

I am not a pacifist. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay—and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

A man who bets on greed an dishonesty won't be wrong too often.