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Quotes About Dishonesty

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Two tongues in their mouths, the one they use to promise and the one they use to lie.
~ Dashka Slater
But — and here is the crucial point — it was difficult to rebut that anti-gay slur [i.e., that the abuse crisis in the Catholic church is about pedophilia by gay priests] for the scapegoating it was, precisely because of that cloak of denial around the Church's broader sexual dishonesty. Gay priests, too, were forced to live a lie.
~ James Carroll
Characters who engage in murder, sadistic cruelty, malignant selfishness or narcissism, dishonorable and dishonest acts, and obsessions with relative frivolities such as political intrigue and playing the game of thrones transgress against not just individuals but society itself.
~ James Lowder
Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.
~ James R. Cook
The money quickly began to disappear into the rucksacks and footlockers of the officers and enlisted personnel who had access to it; some was mailed home to wives and girlfriends. The stealing in Iraq reached epic proportions.
~ James Risen
honestly--then dishonestly.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Exposing hypocrisy doesn't make you a moral person
~ Douglas Coupland
A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.
~ Aesop
No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth
~ Aesop
The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief
~ African Proverb
always bear in mind that the person who speaks may be lying
~ Agatha Christie
I have had a long experience in the compilation of statistics. From that experience I can assure you that in 87% of cases dishonesty does not pay.
~ Agatha Christie
Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie
~ Aki Shimizu
Our politicians are suffering from two types of dishonesty -beastly dishonesty and intellectual dishonesty.
~ Akinola Oladipupo
People can see through a phony.
~ Cris Collinsworth
When you can use forged photograph of Manoj Tiwari then all your claims are false. The whole party and their thinking is fake.
~ Manoj Tiwari
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.
~ Paul Johnson
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
~ Mort Sahl
That must be a wretched existence, forced to lie when you don't want to.
~ Rachel Hartman
There is no pain in truth, no comfort in lies.
~ Rachel Hartman
What can I get you guys?" Another lie, maybe?
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Whatever she was or wasn't, she looked like a liar and he liked liars.
~ Rachel Kushner