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Quotes About Dishonesty

A man who bets on greed and dishonesty won't be wrong too often.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is variation of theft.
~ Khaled Hosseini
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.
~ Khaled Hosseini
there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
~ Khaled Hosseini
We should do this more often," Charlotte lied. "For sure," Larry lied back.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
fraudulent blue ozone
~ Knut Hamsun
Uh-huh," she said. He was beginning to recognize that was her way of indicating untruth.
~ Kresley Cole
Mortal, if there's one thing I've learned in all my years, it's this: lies are curses you place on yourself.
~ Kresley Cole
We are vain and we are dishonest because it is necessary to triumph over other vain and dishonest persons.
~ Kressman Taylor
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
~ Hosea Ballou
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
~ Samuel Butler
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
~ Ambrose Bierce
That's the trouble with lies. Sometimes it's hard to keep them straight.
~ Deborah Hopkinson
These people…flatter others to get favors in return. JUDE 1:16 NLT
~ Deborah Smith Pegues
Truth is the most wonderful thing in the world, until it's used as a weapon to serve self-interests.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Honesty is, honestly, the best policy," said Saracen. "But when honesty doesn't work, lie, and lie convincingly.
~ Derek Landy
Trump had been lying for his entire adult life, and far from being brought down by this pervasive dishonesty, he had been elected president of the United States. Why change what was working so well? And in any event, what man in his eighth decade changes such a fundamental aspect of his character? Not Trump.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
In the trial and throughout Trump's presidency, there was never any doubt about his character or his conduct—his dishonesty, his arrogance, his ignorance, and his narcissism.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
But Trump responded to the coronavirus with the same belligerent dishonesty that characterized his treatment of Mueller and impeachment. In the critical early days of the pandemic, when it might have been contained, he behaved with characteristic self-obsession, preferring to hound his enemies on Twitter rather than to learn the facts about the virus and protect the American people.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
One of the great advantages that we may derive from machinery is the check that it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the dishonesty of human agents.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
The truth costs. Lies cost more.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
corrupt interloper bluffing her way through her life.
~ Jennifer Egan
I would never lie to you, Mica," she lied.
~ Jennifer Fallon