Quotes About Dishonest Men

#1. Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

Ron Paul

#2. An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#3. I know he is
sensitive
on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. That is why corruption is so pernicious. It breaks the will of good men.

Jed Rubenfeld

#4. Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

#5. The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

John Zorn

#6. The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

Benjamin A. Rogge

#7. This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute.

Preston Sturges

#8. O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?

William Shakespeare

#9. It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

Bernard Williams

#11. I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really were. But all that changed one rainy August afternoon, when I was surprised by a dead man who had answers.

James Caskey

#12. I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look
like a chair.

Richard Schultz

#13. I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

Ron Paul

#14. A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Henry Fielding

#15. It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Laurence J. Peter

#16. A man without enemies is a dishonest man.

Daniel J. Rice

#17. Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.

Xenophon

#18. You do not know the dishonest purposes of these men as well as I do," Douglas told Lincoln of the secessionists. "If I were president, I'd convert or hang them all within forty-eight hours.

Scott Farris

#19. On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

Umar

#20. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics.

George Orwell

#21. Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

Samuel Johnson

#22. Doors are for those who lack enemies.

Suzanne Collins

#23. Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.

William Shakespeare

#24. The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

John Burns

#25. The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

Rumi

#26. Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#27. Everybody feels like that to some extent," I said. "They're trying to express themselves and it bothers them when they can't get it right.

Haruki Murakami

#28. Also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

John Le Carre

#29. The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

Charles M. Schwab

#30. There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

Gina Carano

#31. I'm very disturbed at the picture that was painted by Senator Ted Kennedy that Samuel Alito is not a man of his word, that he is dishonest. The implication that he is not reliable I don't think is a fair characterization of what I've read.

Tom Coburn

#32. Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.

Ezra Taft Benson

#33. Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.

Theodore Roosevelt

#34. The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

Josh Billings

#35. A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Gene Fowler