Quotes About Dishonesty

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

Most of my relatives could start a fight in an empty room and then lie about who won.

Hypocrisy wears hard on a man who at heart isn't that way.

Mixture of lie doeth ever add pleasure.

Lie faces God and shrikns from men

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

the "word for that kind of lie" is "Hope.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe that for his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

My life is a convoluted web of lies.

Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.

A liar thinks everyone else lies? ... A thief thinks everyone else is stealing from him? ... A philanderer thinks everyone else is philandering.

It is hard to believe a man when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Truth is ever feeble against passionate falsehood.

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

What sorrow awaits you who build big houses with money gained dishonestly! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your family's nest beyond the reach of danger. HABAKKUK 2:9

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

On both sides of the Atlantic, politics has come to be dominated by vitriolic name-calling and pervasive dishonesty.

This means the party demands dishonesty as a trait of membership—unless you are a rare sociopath who defends pathological lying.

The louder he proclaims his honesty, the faster we count the silver.