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Quotes About Dishonesty

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.
~ Thomas Carlyle
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.
~ William Shakespeare
He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.
~ Wilson Mizner
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
~ Plato
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
~ Unknown
I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!
~ W. C. Fields
Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
~ Charles Spurgeon
When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.
~ George R. R. Martin
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.
~ Esther Forbes
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
~ Francis Bacon
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
~ Lord Chesterfield
On the wings of lies, man can only fly to the land of shame and lowness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
~ James Joyce
Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.
~ Jay Leno
The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.
~ Barry Goldwater
Money always talks louder than morality.
~ Grieves
Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.
~ Ron Paul
The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul, Pointing out the way to infamy and shame." - Creon
~ Sophocles, Antigone
Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves.
~ Ally Carter
My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.
~ Vincent Gallo