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Quotes About Dishonesty

Noble cheated. He brought in rabbits somebody else killed.
~ Karen Hesse
Truth hurts. But lies can kill.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I forget nothing, Ms. Lane. I omit." "And evade." "Lie, cheat, and steal," he agreed. "If the shoe fits.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
A little girl hitting a violent predator with a log is hand-to-hand combat and that's honest. A man, who is represented by a hand, shooting a series of unknown henchmen is dishonest.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Racism, prejudice, dishonesty, laziness, gluttony, materialism, selfishness—all these grow more unpleasant the longer you have to accommodate them. If you're already tired of having to excuse your partner of one (or certainly several) of these, you're going to have a tough time when it comes to marital satisfaction twenty years from now.
~ Gary L. Thomas
Belial continued with the sincerity of a politician.
~ Brian Godawa
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
~ Bryant H. McGill
To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!
~ Herman Melville
There is a weakness in the people after the war. They are open to slogans. The boundaries between fact and fiction have become so dissolved it's hard to tell the difference. As if people have now developed an appetite for dishonesty. The lies they like to hear. Rogue words to match their resentment. They want the blame for their losses to be placed on the vulnerable, the unwelcome, those from elsewhere.
~ Hugo Hamilton
He's not a bad guy really, except he's so crooked, you shake hands with him you better count your fingers afterwards.
~ Ian Fleming
I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
~ Joe Scarborough
If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
~ Don Nickles
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
~ Harry S Truman
Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
~ P. Chidambaram
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
~ Joan Collins
I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.
~ Peter Capaldi
The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.
~ Xaviera Hollander
People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.
~ Randy Pausch
Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.
~ Robert Herjavec
The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.
~ Selena Roberts
Hillary Clinton is so dishonest she doesn't want people peppering her with questions.
~ Donald Trump