Quotes About Dishonesty

The Left does not always kill, but it always lies.

They are bought by some rascal of a cook whom a Frenchman has taught how to skin a tomcat and then serve it up as hare.

It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty... and how few by dishonesty.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.

Mesele ç?kmas?n diye elinizden geleni yap?yorsunuz!??te bu ikiyüzlülü?ünüze dayanam?yorum!

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." Rochefoucauld's maxim

A life free of lies! Ah, but that, too, was, by definition, a lie. Surely a lie already dwelled in the heart of anyone who sought to make such distinctions and stand in judgment.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.

Then we'd be living a lie," Padmé told him gently. "And one we couldn't keep

Demasiada sinceridad te hace parecer falso.

How awful, that an honest man should feel compelled to travel such crooked paths! How awful, that the most precious thing a man possesses, his own honor, should be sullied by such shabby dealings!

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.

Quién eres tú? Y si crees que lo sabes, ¿por qué insistes en mentir al respecto?

Not everyone is able to lie or is willing to do so.

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.

Narcissists are actors playing a part. They are expert liars, and, even worse, they believe their own lies. Practiced in dishonesty, they can't tell the difference between their own version of truth and a falsehood. They may take the past and rearrange it to make themselves look good. They rarely if ever admit fault, and they never say they're sorry. —Rokelle Lerner, author of The Object of My Affection Is in My Reflection: Coping with Narcissists

I had a harder time with this dishonesty, because it seemed to speak of something larger. The way he was always out for himself, whatever the cost.

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled the lie his tongue disdained to speak.

Deceit with sternness, ignorance with pride