Quotes About Dishonesty

Some books are lies frae end to end.

Eddie Haskell

Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.

You saw his actions," Bow says, "but not his heart." Is she serious? "Actions reveal heart." "Not always. Deception is all about perception.

Shit sprinkled with sugar was still shit.

Someone who accepts the lie will never see the truth.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

He who saith there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Says he, "I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver."

Intellectual honesty does not consist in trying to entrench or establish one's position by proving (or 'probabilifying') it - intellectual honesty consists rather in specifying precisely the conditions under which one is willing to give up one's position. Marxists and Freudians refuse to specify such conditions: this is the hallmark of their intellectual dishonesty.

Intellectual honesty does not consist in trying to entrench or establish one's position by proving (or 'probabilifying') it - intellectual honesty consists rather in specifying precisely the conditions under which one is willing to give up one's position. Committed Marxists and Freudians refuse to specify such conditions: this is the hallmark of their intellectual dishonest.

How absolute the knave is!

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

solo una mentira que no se avergonzara de sí misma conseguiría tener éxito.

Casi todo el mundo miente, unos por vanidad, para presentarse bajo una luz favorable, otros por temor y la mayoría simplemente por hábito.

Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Cutting honest throats by whispers.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.