Quotes About Dishonesty

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

People are horrible and they lie.

L'italiano è infido, bugiardo, vile, traditore, si trova più a suo agio con il pugnale che con la spade, meglio con il veleno che col farmaco, viscido nella trattativa, coerente solo nel cambiar bandiera a ogni vento.

Mark Twain, I believe, is author of the saying that a lie can run all the way round the earth while the truth is putting on its

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

Hypocrisy is the homage of vice to virtue.

The royal lottery-keeper is both a gambler and a swindler; for in his playing he knows that the stake he lays down is unequal to his opponent's.

I tell so many lies, sweetheart," he said. "which one specifically?

When to people tell the same lie..." "They are working together," Will finished

Where most people have some reaction to the act of telhng a He, such as feehngs of guih or shame,

A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold it up.

There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.

Nel paese della bugia, la verità è una malattia.

liars need to have good memories

Don't fear the truth, it isn't hard. Don't embrace falsehood, it is hard.

The people's inclination to falsity best defines the human problem.

A half truth is a whole lie.

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous.

lazy thoughts crystallize into habits of uncleanliness and dishonesty, which solidify into circumstances of foulness and beggary: hateful and condemnatory thoughts crystallize into habits of accusation and violence

The universe does not favor the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, and the virtuous. All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this in varying forms, and to prove and know it a man has but to persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting up his thoughts.

Anger is a form of dishonesty. Nobody is perfect. It's a lie to expect the people around you to be perfect.

Excuses are easy lies we tell ourselves to cover up our failures. One such excuse is, only dishonest people get ahead. This is also a lie. MAKE

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mark of cruelty.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.