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Quotes About Dishonesty

Very well, sir, to crime.
~ Ross Thomas
With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back.
~ Russian proverb
With lies you may get ahead in the world — but you can never go back.
~ Russian proverb
No forgiveness for lies.
~ Ry? Murakami
Most people will show you courtesy, but in a fraudulent, untruthful, way.
~ Ryan Pack
The two of us were—by our own admission—proficient and shameless liars of long standing. It's a wonder either one of us believed a word the other said.
~ Margaret Atwood
He just tarted up his misdemeanours and made them look respectable
~ Margaret Atwood
But it wasn't more honestly that would have saved me, I thought; it was more dishonesty. In my experience, honesty and expressing your feelings could lead to only one thing. Disaster.
~ Margaret Atwood
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
~ Margaret Mitchell
Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
~ Lillian Hellman
People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
~ Tahereh Mafi
I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.
~ Clark Gable
The truth deals only one wound, but suspicions a thousand.
~ Anne Perry
One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty
~ Anne Perry
I go out an honest man, but you stay in a rogue.
~ Anne Somerset
He was lying; I could hear it the way you hear a tune and you know how it goes. I wondered how many times I'd heard him lie, to know so well what it sounded like.
~ Annie Barrows
Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint.
~ Sherman Alexie
Of course, you can't lie forever. Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint.
~ Sherman Alexie
Nobody knew the truth. Of course, you can't lie forever. Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad.
~ Sherman Alexie
you're so full of shit, you ought to be a cow manure
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think The New York Times is one of the most dishonest media outlets I've ever seen in my life. The worst. The worst. The absolute worse. They have an agenda that you wouldn't believe.
~ Donald Trump
I was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life...
~ Monica Lewinsky
It's only cheating if you're caught doing it. Otherwise, it's good tactics.
~ John Flanagan