Quotes About Dishonesty

This was RULE 32: TELL ONE LIE AND GET READY TO TELL A WHOLE LOT MORE.

Crap. I was a lying chicken.

Honest men make unconvincing liars,' I lied convincingly.

That's how it worked in theory, but in reality nearly everybody was in on the deal and got a little piece of the pie for looking the other way. Before

What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!

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.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

If great criminals told the truth—which, being great criminals, they do not—they would very rarely tell of their struggles against the crime. Their struggles are towards it. They buffet with opposing waves, to gain the bloody shore, not to recede from it.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did

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It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Optimism... The instinct to lie.

No one speaks the truth to anyone anymore. Lies either by omission or purposefully have become our national pastime. Backstabbing is an Olympic sport. Or at least it should be.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook.

When you make someone promise something, is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.

Deception is the art of war.

What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.

The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass.

would sign written statements implicating the others. Even my own

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.