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Quotes About Dishonesty

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!
~ Patricia Highsmith
Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
~ Patricia Highsmith
He does so by deceit.
~ Dallas Willard
Lies destroy you
~ Dana Reinhardt
Neredeyse iÅŸitilir biçimde, Nas?l bu kadar ikiyüzlü olabiliyorsun? dedim, Her ne kadar yetinmeye çal??san da kurtulmak için can? gönülden dua ettiÄŸin bu duruma ÅŸükran duyarm?? gibi yap?yorsun?
~ Daniel Defoe
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
~ Daniel Defoe
Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Fraud is the daughter of greed.
~ Jonathan Gash
men and women have gambled in every age. In every age men have been dishonest and governments have been corrupt;
~ Will Durant
Folly is the cloak of knavery.
~ William Blake
Budalal?k, üçkâ??tç?l???n k?l?f?d?r. Utanç, Gururun k?l?f?d?r.
~ William Blake
Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest.
~ William Gaddis
He always avoided arrest, and everyone except Yellin thought Falkbridge must be bribing somebody. Yellin knew he was bribing somebody, since every month, rain or shine, Falkbridge came to Yellin's house and gave him a sarchel full of money.
~ William Goldman
In his case, what had been hardness became cruelty, while a tendency to bluff became plain dishonesty. He often lied without hesitation and assumed that others lied to him.
~ William L. Shirer
Inner Purification or Character Building is extremely important. Without thorough continuous Character Building, a disciple will spiritually fall. This is exactly what happened to some of MCKS' disciples. They did not focus enough on Character Building and spiritually fell because of pride, self delusion, arrogance, greed and dishonesty.
~ Choa Kok Sui
The "Sea of Lies" article in Newsweek (July
~ Christopher Bartlett
Stealing is the worst kind of cheating. It's cheating at life, son. It's for folk that arenae any good at life, so they have to cheat.
~ Christopher Brookmyre
Elections to the sixteenth majles were held first in the provinces, and they were conducted so dishonestly that even the British were shocked.
~ Christopher De Bellaigue
lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another
~ Helen Oyeyemi
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
~ Henry Fielding
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
~ Henry Kissinger
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But all profit that is out of proportion to the labor expended is dishonest.
~ Leo Tolstoy