Quotes About Dishonesty

In 2010, Republicans took control of politics in Alabama by advocating for increased transparency and an end to government corruption, but instead of ending it, they have raised the level of corruption to the point that the stench of dishonesty fills the air, decadence drives policy, and bribery is the norm in Montgomery.

And don't mix up truth with falsehood, nor hide the truth while you know.

Anyone who cares more about pleasing other people than about their own happiness—anyone who believes, deep down, that everyone else matters more than they do—learns fluent dishonesty at a young age.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.

For a society is always most cruel to those who disclose and reveal its secrets, when through dishonesty society itself has outraged Nature.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.