Quotes About Dishonesty

Some people will slap you on the back behind your face and then slap you in the face behind your back.

Don't lie to me, though I know lying is like breathing to you guys!

Isaiah 5:20, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

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.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

four basic causes of failure: sex, alcohol, deception, and stealing.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

For the extreme of injustice is to seem to be just when one is not.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

So let the unjust make his unjust attempts in the right way, and lie hidden if he means to be great in his injustice: (he who is found out is nobody:) for the highest reach of injustice is, to be deemed just when you are not. Therefore I say that in the perfectly unjust man we must assume the most perfect injustice; there is to be no deduction, but we must allow him, while doing the most unjust acts, to have acquired the greatest reputation for justice.

And if you have art, then, as I was saying, in falsifying your promise that you would exhibit Homer, you are not dealing fairly with me. But if, as I believe, you have no art, but speak all these beautiful words about Homer unconsciously under his inspiring influence, then I acquit you of dishonesty, and shall only say that you are inspired. Which do you prefer to be thought, dishonest or inspired? ION:

Truth, sir, is a cow that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. —SAMUEL JOHNSON

No, Kez, don't pour sugar on a pile of shit and call it breakfast.

Lying won't get you anything but misery.

we're not living in an age of truth and grace.