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Quotes About Dishonesty

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Unfortunately in today's world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.
~ Munia Khan
Secrets are lies by another name.
~ Michael Morpurgo
You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor into your side of the equation.
~ Chet Billingsley
Honesty whispers, "Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.
~ Angelica Hopes
Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way and he is only honest who is not discovered.
~ Susannah Centlivre
There is one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says 'yes' you know he is crooked.
~ Groucho Marx
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
~ Johnny Depp
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
~ Aristotle
It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.
~ George Carlin
Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.
~ James Patterson
I hate that question, "Are you okay?" It's like asking someone if they think you look fat. You're almost guaranteed to get a lie.
~ Hilary T. Smith, Wild Awake
He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
...but I'd learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.
~ Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand
Lia caught sight of it immediately and glared at him. "You gave me your word. You swore you wouldn't tell him.""I'm a mass murderer, " he said pointedly. "Not exactly trustworthy.
~ M. Kane, Queen of Thieves
if lying would be a crime, we would all be in jail right now
~ PLL.
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
~ W.C. Fields
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.
~ Jim Rohn