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Quotes About Dishonesty

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
~ Homer
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
~ La Rochefoucauld
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible.
~ John Milton
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
~ Ivan Goncharov
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Hypocrite - mouth one way, belly 'nother way.
~ Australian Aboriginal Proverb
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
~ Matthew Henry
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
~ Dan Ariely
Sin is more than turning our backs on God - it is turning our backs on life! Immorality is much more than adultery and dishonesty: it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives.
~ Mike Yaconelli
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
~ Mark Strand
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.
~ Pete Hamill
In war, truth is the first casualty.
~ Aeschylus
Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
Lying is a thriving vocation.
~ Susanna Centlivre
What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?
~ Suzanne Collins
I've no use for liars. What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?
~ Suzanne Collins
Qué son las mentiras, sino intentos por ocultar algún tipo de debilidad?
~ Suzanne Collins
Oh come on, you talk so much shit I can smell it on your breath.
~ Suzanne Wright
I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.
~ Rita Moreno
Honesty is love but deception is hatred.
~ Ahmed Mayouf