Quotes About Dishonesty

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Fame and power do not change us; they amplify us. If we are insecure, we grow more so. If we are addictive, we become a greater addict and insatiable. If we are desirous of truth, we seek it more. If we are generous, we become more so. If we seek to fill holes through dishonest means, we have greater access to do so. Fame and power are masterful teachers.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

Truth is the safest lie.

She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.—Noel Coward

The next time someone lies to your face, tell them that Boo You Lieeeeee...

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?

She had the stabbing, prickly feeling she had gotten in the third grade when she'd cheated on a math test. It was throbbing, gut-pounding feeling that she was a big fake about to be caught.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

A thief is a thief is a thief.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton; not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

She was incurably dishonest.

Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.

It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

They proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.