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Quotes About Dishonesty

Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
~ Bertold Brecht
A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Figures won't lie, but liars can figure.
~ Beth Knight
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
~ Bible
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth.
~ bierce ambrose v
Plagiarism is one of the great academic sins. It has the power to destroy a scholar or writer and turn a lifetime's work to dust.
~ Miranda Devine
You lie, cheat and steal and call it courtesy, cunning and thrift.
~ Gregory Maguire
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
~ H.L. Mencken
They're politicians,' Win said. 'They'd lie and evade if you asked them what they had for breakfast.
~ Harlan Coben
Tinsel town is full of liars, show-offs and spineless hypocrites.
~ Tanushree Dutta
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.
~ David Arquette
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
~ George Crabbe
There is no truth in him.
~ Bible
Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
~ Ron Paul
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
~ Ezra Pound
No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.
~ T. B. Joshua
Lying can never save us from another lie.
~ Vaclav Havel
One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
~ Al David
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
~ J. I. Packer
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
~ Franz Kafka
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
~ Daniel Webster
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
~ Baltasar Gracian