Quotes About Dishonesty

Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in the horizon.

He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxord,' or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.

Elle était incurablement malhonnête. Elle ne supportait pas d'être mise en échec et, pour compenser cette fragilité, je pense qu'elle s'était exercée à mentir dès son plus jeune âge, afin de présenter au monde un sourire d'insolence glaciale tout en cédant aux exigences de son tempérament avide et cynique.

La deshonestidad femenina es algo que no se puede criticar en serio

Pon a un ladrón entre hombres honrados y acabarán quitándole el reloj.

Two things I can't stand, Haze said, ---a man that ain't true and one that mocks what is.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last.

Donald Trump's mini-me, Boris Johnson, is in the ascendant: the Tory crown is his to lose. But his colleagues know he's an incompetent, a man who cares only for himself, who was fired twice - by a newspaper editor and a party leader - over allegations of dishonesty.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

Prosecutors are all used to persons who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

They spend us into the dirt and lie like crazy, and, my gosh, I have never seen an opponent who just lies like he's taking a drinking of water like Terry McAuliffe. It is nothing to him.

It's not easy to pull off the Big Lie and George Bush has failed.

The idea here is that childhood lies are not just a phase of harmless delinquency we pass smoothly through, but the first in a series of test runs for self-serving dishonesty. Through positive reinforcement (for undetected and fruitful lies) and negative reinforcement (for lies that peers uncover, or through the reprimand of kin) we learn what we can and can't get away with, and what our kin do and don't consider judicious deceit.

The shortest distance between a man and his goal was often a lie

Lies; they always come back to haunt you.

I should have been sending up flares, instead I was offering smiles.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)