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Quotes About Dishonesty

Donald Trump is liar-in-chief.
~ Hasan Minhaj
Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace.
~ Ingmar Bergman
And I know for a fact that those who "always have to tell the truth" are definitely lying.
~ Unknown
Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.
~ Isaac Asimov
It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
~ Daryl Gates
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
~ Grover Norquist
When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
~ Unknown
A barometer of a moral deficit.
~ Louise Penny
He was like Pinocchio. A man made of wood, mimicking humanity. Shiny and smiling and fake. And if you cut into him you'd see rings. Circles of deceit and scheming and justification. It's what he was made of. That hadn't changed.
~ Louise Penny
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
~ Jodi Picoult
Only the liar knows that he's lying.
~ Jodi Picoult
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.
~ Jodi Picoult
One of the first things Adam told me was that I was pretty, which should have been my first clue that he was a liar.
~ Jodi Picoult
Only the liar knows if he's lying
~ Jodi Picoult
Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
~ John Adams
UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. —The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan)
~ John Brunner
He lies, she cries. He's not sorry, but he apologizes. She complains, he doesn't change, but yet, she still stays.
~ Unknown
I promised and you promised. You seemed so honest. But then you went away and never looked back.
~ Unknown
Don't ever allow yourself to wait for someone who's just gonna tell you unfaithful promises and obvious lies.
~ Unknown
Lies will always be bitter in the end,no matter how sweet you made it at the beginning.
~ Unknown
The only thing more shocking than the truth are the lies people tell to cover it up.
~ Unknown
Some people lie so much they dont know what the truth is anymore. For them, telling lies is just like eating Pringles!
~ Unknown