Quotes About Dishonesty

Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accept the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay-and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.

Tous les hommes honnêtes sont dangereux. Seules, les canailles sont inoffensives... Parce que les canailles n'agissent que par intérêt, c'est-à-dire petitement.

spoke through her teeth, another skill

Most sailors were in their teens or twenties. Anyone who had reached his thirties was considered a veteran scalawag; by the time he had survived to that age, he had seen what life at sea held: brutality, loneliness, and disease; he had experienced flashes of camaraderie and heroism, as well as persistent dishonesty and callousness. He knew all about the avarice of shipowners, the uncomprehending indifference of kings under whose flags the expedition sailed, and the tyranny of captains.

But coming halfway clean was a time- honored way of continuing to lie.

It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, I'm a Liar, right there on the dust jacket.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

I'd go to my grave wearing lies like another layer of skin.

Lies are unattended truths

Politics is now synonymous with hypocrisy

It's not that people change. People don't change. They merely hide things from you, and lie.

Betrayals start that way, with lies hidden in the shadows of silence.

If he were any more crooked, you could open wine bottles with him.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier

The most believable lies are the ones that are atleast a little bit true.