Being Dishonest Quotes

#1. And like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

John Fowles

#2. The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#3. Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

Barney Frank

#4. I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

S.I. Hayakawa

#5. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical.

Truman Capote

#6. Searching through Monster while on the clock feels like being on Tinder while still married.

Crystal Woods

#7. The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest like the grownups I saw, nodding politely to each other without affection, and decided to put my true self in a time capsule for later use.

Aurora Levins Morales

#8. I'd rather be honest and lose than be dishonest and win

Greg McKeown

#9. There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

Al Pacino

#10. Choosing between dull and dishonest is like being asked whether you want to be shot or stabbed. "What

Emma Chase

#11. Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.

Stuart Wilde

#12. A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place.

Si Robertson

#13. Is this what nice is? Letting people think things that aren't true just to avoid hurting their feelings? Being nice is dishonest.

Amy Reed

#14. God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Marvin J. Ashton

#15. The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

Cyndi Lauper

#16. You're either on team Republican or team Democrat, and it's the idea that one of these sides has a perfect record of being correct and is worth supporting on 100% of the causes. I find that kind of thinking extremely dangerous and very intellectually dishonest.

Jonathan Hickman

#17. When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?

James Purefoy

#18. The only consistent people are the dead

Aldous Huxley

#19. As I am now, so you must be, So Friend, prepare to follow me

Alan Bradley

#20. One thing is certain: That is that the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. That is a fact.

Daisaku Ikeda

#21. The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest.

Sam Storms

#22. As I stood in front of the mirror in the beautiful little black dress, I knew that I was looking at a woman whom I would never see again. I wished I had never seen her in the first place, but the truth is she had always been there. I was being dishonest to myself by pretending that she hadn't.

Jane L Rosen

#23. The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.

Stella Young

#24. Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

Groucho Marx

#25. In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

Kapil Dev

#26. People think you're being dishonest because you're just too blunt.

Holland Roden

#27. Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make

Loknath

#28. I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

Kat Dennings

#29. Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

Virgil

#30. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

Agatha Christie

#32. Learn to trust and be trustworthy. When you treat someone as if they are being dishonest, you will train them to be. It's more powerful to treat someone as if they are being honest, and you will train them to now be honest, even if they weren't then.

Marshall Sylver