Quotes About Dishonesty

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

Men like that — when they know they won't be found out — they will do anything.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

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

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

It gave dirty politics a bad name.

There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Sometimes the truth hurts because it uncovers the lies people are living

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

It is when the pirates count their booty, that they become mere thieves.

Thou liar of the first magnitude.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

Men who pride themselves on being shrewd in discovering the weak points, the vanity, the dishonesty, immorality, intrigue, and pettiness of others think they understand character. They know only a part of character. They know only the depths to which some men may sink; they know not the heights to which some men may rise.

Confession of the mouth without faith in the heart is gross hypocrisy.

A false heart yields when sin comes with a bribe in its hand.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite