Quotes About Dishonesty

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

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The corrupt, self-serving prick was trying to distract you from the truth to save his career, remember?

What else exhausts like sustained deception?

Respecting one's elders is difficult enough, but when they are soaked with water and have proved themselves to be dishonest, it is nearly impossible.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

It's not that they knew what you were doing exactly. They could feel what you were feeling, and as the lie you were contemplating brought you down, they felt that drain themselves, and thus became more confused and unclear---which was an unconscious signal to them that something was wrong, and that you were probably up to no good. So they backed away.

but why he should say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable! How were people, at that rate, to be understood?

That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.

In the Sabs we had to remain in this depressing, unreal world. I didn't like all the devilish boohoo that went with it, to tell you the truth. There was manipulation from outside sources that preferred us to be a certain way. Acting up to that, I felt quite dishonest.

I get really upset when I'm around liars.

Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.

In 'Casino,' there was this scene where Bob De Niro tape-records Sharon Stone's phone call. Then he asks her about where she's going, and he catches her in a lie. It was a great scene, especially for Bob's work, but we found that, in light of the whole film, it wasn't needed.

After dangling in a summer breeze for eight hours, the bodies were cut down by a deputy at dawn. The woman at the roadside robbery scene later said there had been no rape; she had made the story up.

Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

I have said to you that to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.

Oily started, and a hot flush suffused his forehead. His professional pride was piqued. In no section of the community are class distinctions more rigid than among those who make a dishonest living by crime. The burglar looks down on the stick-up man, the stick-up man on the humbler practitioner who steals milk cans. Accuse a high-up confidence artist of petty larceny, and you bring out all the snob in him.

In the hour it took to finish that meal, I learned that silence could be the most eloquent form of lying.

an excerpt from The Dausi: Four times Wagadu rose. A great city, gleaming in the light of day. Four times Wagadu fell and disappeared from human sight. Once through vanity. Once through dishonesty. Once through greed. Once through discord. Four times Wagadu changed her name. First she was Dierra, then Agada, then Ghana, then Silla.