Quotes About Dishonesty

Is it gold?' asked the lad. 'Copper,' she lied, since gold is apt to turn unpleasant meetings into deadly ones.

He'd come to Styria looking for honest work. But when the purse runs empty, dishonest work has to do.

Ig laughed at that. The things people said. The effortless way they lied, to others, to themselves.

Because the neocortex (the thinking brain) is capable of dishonesty, it is not a good source of reliable or accurate information (Ost, 2006, 259

If you will lie about the little things, before long you'll lie about bigger things.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

You're lying to me half the time, and I'm lying to you all the time.

So lie. Tell him the ones from the Boston house. The cream ones with the embroidery." It was easiest to tell her I would. And later, I told her I had. But Bess has asked Mirren to do the same thing, and neither one of us begged Granddad for the fucking tablecloths.

Drugs and stealing go together like bagels and lox.

The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Falsehood has a perennial spring.

Some people really think that great wealth makes crime respectable, and if it is pointed out to a wealthy but dishonest man, that he is merely a common thief, and if in addition, the fact is proved to everybody's satisfaction, his anger is noticeable.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.

Another lie in a life that had been nothing but lies.

What?' I couldn't believe what he had just said. 'She's faking being blind?' It was one of the most disgusting things I'd ever heard.

High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.

Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.