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Quotes About Dishonesty

Sex makes a man dishonest with himself, as is well known. I feared the slippery ambiguity of false feeling, of expediency, of things not being exactly true.
~ Peter Carey
I simply wish to offer my fart-helt apologies, sir, for you're just an honest man doin' your job, and I'm a dishonest lad doin' mine, and of the two, you have far more reason to hang your head high than does I.
~ Peter David
Hypocrisy, it is said, is "the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
~ Peter Kreeft
Una verdad referida con mala fe es peor que todas las mentiras.
~ Philip Pullman
I have lied so often that I've lost track of the truth.
~ David Levithan
All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.
~ David Sedaris
Love is a game in which one always cheats.
~ Honore de Balzac
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
~ Hosea Ballou
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza A fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.
~ Idries Shah
One lie will keep out forty truths.
~ Idries Shah
The liar has a bad memory.
~ Idries Shah
Una mentira dejará fuera a cuarenta verdades
~ Idries Shah
El mentiroso tiene mala memoria.
~ Idries Shah
Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Un tonto: un hombre tratando de ser honesto con los deshonestos.
~ Idries Shah
el problema es que a es calaña ya no les basta con mentir, además quieren disfrazar su mentira de virtud.
~ Unknown
He would leave a twenty-dollar tip on a fifty-cent breakfast, or simply forget where he had stashed the night's takings, but would chisel his band members out of five bucks if he could.
~ Unknown
A Texas bank robber wrote his hold-up note on the back of his resume, on which he lied about his earlier robberies.
~ Conan O'Brien
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
~ Stephen Covey
Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
~ Bret Stephens
I've always thought there was a fair amount of dishonesty involved in politeness.
~ Lisa Kleypas
A salad of honesty and deception is the only way I can get away with an untruth.
~ Lisa Lutz
I've been ripped off, conned, lied to and cheated... but I'm still here. Cheaters never prosper. If stealing from you is the only way for them to get ahead - they're never going to get very far. Because thats all they are - just a thief. When they lose it, they can't rebuild because they don't know how. They never did the ground work in the first place. All they know is how to steal!
~ Unknown
We are well," Hugh said, looking me over with more intensity than seemed proper. "And you?" "I'm well, thank you," I said, lying through my teeth. I'd been better the day I took to my bed with measles.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
You may lie.
~ Lois Lowry