Quotes About Dishonesty

The most believable lies are the ones that are at least a bit true.

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.

Perhaps we have become self-righteous about our Christian lives because we look at society around us and see flagrant immorality, pervasive dishonesty, wholesale greed, and increasing violence. We see growing acceptance of abortion as a "right" and homosexuality as an acceptable alternate lifestyle. Because we are not guilty of these more gross forms of sin, we can begin to feel rather good about our Christian lives. When

The fellows who write those lies ought to go out and hang themselves.

We called one's lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one's whole situation... We don't want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives.

It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell.

Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.

I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.

Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Each smiled and nodded courteously, and each knew the other lied.

Fear is the father of lies.

6:10) [T]he love of money is the root of all evil….

in this age of great ambiguity and relentless change, so many people cut "ethical corners". Too many people think that dishonesty will get them ahead.