Quotes About Dishonesty

Love and honesty don't mix.

there is no hope for the person who is dishonest by choice. Sooner or later, his deeds will catch up with him, and he will pay by loss of reputation, and perhaps even loss of liberty.

I consider straw man no different from theft.

Compendiaria res improbitas, virtusque tarda—the villainous takes the short road, virtue the longer one. In other words, cutting corners is dishonest.

Half the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false

Compound eyes confound lies.

He is so full of manure, that man, we could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him. Ruby about her dad in Cold Mountain

On reflection, though, it struck her as dishonest, like serving people ice cream on their first night at the fat farm. Hey, have some more hot fudge! You're gonna love it here at Camp Lose-a-Lot!

The girl's face looks greedy, haughty and very lazy. The cream-at-the-top-of-the-milkpail face of someone who will never work for anything; someone who picks up things lying on other people's dressers and is not embarrassed when found out. It is the face of a sneak who glides over to your sink to rinse the fork you have laid by her plate. An inward face ---whatever it sees is its own self. You are there, it says, because I am looking at you.

We are a nation of fence-sitters, face-flatterers and back-biters.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

In Nehruvian 'secularism', superficiality of thought is compensated for by thoroughness in dishonesty.

It's how fucked-up families communicate. Instead of talking to each other directly, everything goes through a third party. If one person controls all the information, they can lie or pit people against each other.

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

that's a pretty big lie by omission

Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.

Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths.