Quotes About Dishonesty

I don't like the sleaziness, the corruption. I don't like the fraud that college basketball has become.

What does guile mean?" "Deceit, duplicity, dishonesty

People always tell you that they want you to be honest with them. But they're lying. Nobody wants that. Honesty sucks. That's why the word honesty is always preceded by other words, like brutal and painful.

Of course, as someone once observed, there is no right way to do something wrong

There is no such thing as a clever crook. If he was really that clever he wouldn't be a crook at all.

In einer Welt der Lüge wird die Lüge nicht einmal durch ihren Gegensatz aus der Welt geschafft, sondern nur durch eine Welt der Wahrheit.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the indecency, the lack of empathy, to be asked to go out every single day and why.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

You cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

Maneck studied beggermaster's excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did human do that to their feelings? Whether it was anger or love or sadness, they always tried to put something else forward in its place. And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else's. A little annoyance they acted like gigantic rage; where a smile or chuckle will do, they laughed hysterically. Either way, it was dishonest.

There must be a trick behind it, a dishonest trick, something crooked, something political, something they can understand. They're so used to sniffing at their own behinds that when someone wants to get a breath of fresh air, to turn at last to something different and more important, and threatened, something that's got to be saved at all costs, it's quite beyond them.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

Trump's former lawyer, John Dowd, said to him "You can't tell the truth. You just make things up.

I never saw Claben bawled out for his performance, his extortions, yet he was a louse, the worst vile stingy hyena when it came to usury and dishonesty! A skunk when it came to lend and lease! Never a day's, a penny's grace...the worst tyrant about extensions...he'd fleece them to zero!...he'd finish off even the most decrepit woebegone wrecks...he'd suck them beyond the bone!...and he'd insult them besides into the bargain!

Capitu, apesar daqueles olhos que o diabo lhe deu... Você já reparou nos olhos dela? São assim de cigana oblíqua e dissimulada. Pois apesar deles, poderia passar, se não fosse a vaidade e a adulação. Oh! A adulação!

On ne peut être à la fois sincère et le paraître.

They are very greedy. You always have to pay bribes. If they want to buy this glass you tell them it's five dollars. They will beat you down to one dollar, then they will say, "OK I will give you $3, but you give me $2 back!

Lies beget other lies.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.