Quotes About Dishonesty

you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You've always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to church when you were at a movie. It's some weird compulsion.

And every single person in this case lies, is lying, did lie.

Lie to everyone in this man's world if need be, but never lie to yourself, because that's the quickest road to destruction.

Comparing that shyster to a snake would be a slander to the serpent.

It isn't Prada that the devil wears but a smile that belies the truth of his intent.

Hypocrisy is just another kind of cruelty.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

Disgusted by Edison's shameless cruelty and dishonesty, Tesla began performing regular exhibitions of his technology in his laboratory in which he lighted lamps by allowing alternating current electricity to flow through his body. Public opinion swung to and fro, unsure of whom to believe.

Why is it that all men like to lie?

Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.

Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

Corruption is never compulsory.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

everyone lies.

People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be!

We're good at lying," Sebastian said, leaning over and managing a smile. "We've been doing it for years.

I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs. I have nothing to gain from fools or cowards; I have no benefits to seek from human vices: from stupidity, dishonesty or fear.

Still, there was no getting around the fact that many of the people most culpable for the nation's economic woes remained fabulously wealthy and had avoided prosecution mainly because the laws as written deemed epic recklessness and dishonesty in the boardroom or on the trading floor less blameworthy than the actions of a teenage shoplifter.