Quotes About Dishonesty

when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, "I never did that," and will to all appearances believe their own direct lie.

Mundus vult decipi. The world winks at dishonesty. The world does not call it dishonesty.

One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Everyone has something to hide.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

what more scoundrelly trick could you have played on us?

Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Deceit knew no boundaries.

Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It's calculating and cold.

Whole new level of bullshit, more like," CeeJay said. "What a waste of a penis that guy is.

Life is one game where people don't play fair.

Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

Thomas More was widely regarded as a man of impeccable character and meticulous honesty. People trusted his judgment, and his refusal to sign sent a message to the people of England. He didn't speak out against the acts; he simply refused to sign or say anything at all. But one honest man's silence is louder than all the words of ten thousand dishonest men.

Scientific points of view are always both naïve and at the same time dishonest, because they take for granted without explicitly mentioning it, that other point of view, namely that of the consciousness, through which from the outset a world forms itself around me and begins to exist for me.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

Ljudima nije lako kad se otkrije njihova pokvarenost. - Ali ih to ne spre?ava da budu pokvareni. - A kakvi bi tek bili kad bi mogli biti sigurni da ?e njihova djelatnost ostati neotkrivena.

War's a cruel but honest struggle, as between animals. Life in peace is cruel struggle, but a dishonest one, as between men.

So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else.

Then I thought maybe she did know but didn't want to look at it. Maybe she did know but there's all kinds of lies you tell yourself when you want to.

It is better to deny God, than to defy God. Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. To profess to be a lover of God and then to be dishonest to God, to the world and to himself, is unparalleled hypocrisy. Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth!

Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.