Quotes About Dishonesty

Every lie needs, and gives birth to, another lie

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

Laura also thought that the law had done a great deal to spoil Henry. It had changed his natural sturdy stupidity into a browbeating indifference to other people's point of view. He seemed to consider himself briefed by his Creator to turn into ridicule the opinions of those who disagreed with him, and to attribute dishonesty, idiocy, or a base motive to every one who supported a better case than he.

I crave truth. And I lie.

Biden's first failed run for the presidency was ended by his dishonesty over his academic record and his plagiarism, including the biography and speeches of British Labor politician Neil Kinnock.

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

Dishonesty is Trump's hallmark: He claimed that he had spoken clearly and boldly against going into Iraq. Wrong. He spoke in favor of invading Iraq. He said he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating 9/11. Wrong. He saw no such thing. He imagined it.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

A selfish man is a thief.

The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.

Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are more.

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

for a man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Politics is a nasty business.

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.