Top 100 Quotes About Dishonest
#1. Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.
Frank Zappa
#4. The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.
H.L. Mencken
#5. We vote to leave, we get rid of this Prime Minister - dishonest Dave [Cameron] - and we get a better Prime Minister.
Nigel Farage
#6. We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities, and the consequences of this simple, devastating realization is the defining feature of American life at the end of this low, dishonest decade.
Christopher L. Hayes
#7. I wish the press was fair. They're really dishonest. The media is really dishonest. It's incredible.
Donald Trump
#8. There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.
Allen West
#9. Don't think," whispers Satan: he knows that an unconverted heart is like a dishonest businessman's financial records, they will not bear close inspection. "Consider your ways," says the Word of God
stop
J.C. Ryle
#10. O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
William Shakespeare
#11. Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.
Jerry Brown
#12. Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.
Lucy Prebble
#13. The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.
Jim Webb
#14. 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
#15. I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
Len Wein
#16. I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
Kate Mosse
#17. You're always learning about yourself, if you're honest with yourself. It's very tough to be honest with yourself. We all are dishonest with ourselves, a lot of the time. We don't want to deal with something, so we compartmentalize it.
Geoff Johns
#18. A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
Ernest Hemingway,
#19. Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Chilon
#20. Lying in bed and smoking my sixth or seventh cigarette of the morning, I'm wondering what the hell I'm going to do today. Oh yeah, I gotta write this thing. But that's not work, really, is it? It feels somehow shifty and ... dishonest, making a buck writing.
Anthony Bourdain
#21. It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
Daryl Gates
#22. We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
Donald T. Regan
#23. It's not that I've been dishonest, it's just that I loathe reality.
Lady Gaga
#24. The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest.
Sam Storms
#25. Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
Veronica Roth
#26. I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
John Milton
#27. It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.
Robert Greenwald
#28. If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.
Vanna Bonta
#29. One day Samuel strained his back lifting a bale of hay, and it hurt his feelings more than his back, for he could not imagine a life in which Sam Hamilton was not privileged to lift a bale of hay. He felt insulted by his back, almost as he would have been if one of his children had been dishonest
John Steinbeck
#30. If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
Jack Sparrow
#34. For give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry. Bid the dishonest man mend himself. If he mend, he is no longer dishonest. If he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Anything
William Shakespeare
#35. You can't escape an assasin," He leaned forward, shadows swallowing his eyes. "Hangings, bumbling bureaucrats, dishonest crewman, jail - those you can talk your way out of, you try hard enough. But this kind of death is the is the only kind of death.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#36. To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
Jerry Saltz
#37. So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
Clarence Thomas
#38. However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever.
Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.
Brandon Sanderson
#39. I choose goodness ... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.
Max Lucado
#40. Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. As ever, he is surpriz'd by the fierceness of their bodies, their inability to hold back, the purity of the not-yet-dishonest, - 'twould take a harder Case than Mason not to struggle with Tears of Sentiment.
Thomas Pynchon
#42. Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
Anthony Trollope
#43. I sighed, then hated myself for sighing, such an impotent and ultimately dishonest thing to do, the refuge of those lacking the courage to articulate their displeasure.
Ron Currie Jr.
#44. Our minds have a great capacity for deception. This does not mean we are necessarily dishonest but if we are not careful, when our brains do not have answers, our minds will create them.
David W. Earle
#45. There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.
Justin Welby
#46. The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#47. It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.
Pete Waterman
#48. It may not quite reflect the maturity of "Thy will be done," but it is better to be an honest mess before God than a dishonest "saint.
John Ortberg
#49. 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
#50. One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#51. I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
Eddie Money
#52. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. She'd never tolerated deception regarding her strong opinions--that much was true. But wasn't it also true that when it came to trying to please in matters that weren't crucial to her, that didn't compromise her sense of things, she had been dishonest?
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
#54. Even in faith, it is not easy for me to say to God, I am sorry for wanting my enemies to be destroyed and punished before my eyes. It is dishonest to say that it is easy to forgive our enemies, even to ask forgiveness for longing for revenge.
David Kwang-sun Suh
#55. Organic' ... means that the work is an extension of your blood and body: it has the rhythm of nature. There exists a state of feeling that when you reach it, when you hit it, you can't go wrong. The work carries a body rhythm. You can't do the slick ... the gimmicky or dishonest.
Nell Blaine
#56. I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.
John Lydon
#57. One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.
Marvin J. Ashton
#58. In my experience, honest people don't need to put their hand on a Bible to tell the truth, and with dishonest people, it makes no difference.
Paul Levine
#59. I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.
Cherie Lunghi
#61. Fear cannot be trusted ... It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.
David Gemmell
#62. You can never guard against a dishonest person. I believe it is human nature, and some people are basically honest and some people are basically dishonest; and the rest, a very large number, sit on the fence.
Harish Bhat
#63. 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
#64. If you are honest, you will live life safely. But if you are dishonest, you will get hurt.
Solomon
#65. Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.
Hesiod
#66. It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
Laurence J. Peter
#67. I had an abortion when I was 16. Because that's what I should have done. Otherwise I would now have a 20-year-old kid. Anyway, those are things that people shouldn't be dishonest about it.
Chelsea Handler
#68. I'm not much of a liar. A hoarder, a hider: most definitely, yes, and sometimes I'm dishonest by default because I find it difficult to share that innermost part of myself with others. But never a conscious liar. I don't think I have it within me to deliberately mislead anyone.
Siobhan Davis
#69. I am inclined to think a Christian would be wise to avoid, where he decently can, any meeting with people who are bullies, lascivious, cruel, dishonest, spiteful and so forth.
C.S. Lewis
#70. Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler
#71. Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.
Robert Smith
#72. Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
Mark Twain
#73. I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#74. Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs - they're all the same.
Tom Gething From "Sabotage"
#75. I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.
Jim Parrack
#76. For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.
J.I. Packer
#77. Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
Xenophon
#78. I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.
Malcolm Wilson
#80. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy
Tim O'Shea
#81. I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it.
Eugene Gendlin
#82. It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.
John B. Larson
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
Ivan Goncharov
#86. Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry Goldwater
#87. On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.
Umar
#88. Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest.
Newt Gingrich
#89. But all profit that is out of proportion to the labor expended is dishonest.
Leo Tolstoy
#90. To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
Michael Novak
#91. 28 a A dishonest man spreads strife, and b a whisperer c separates close friends.
Anonymous
#92. I wouldn't mind politicians lying to me, stealing from me, or senselessly making life difficult if they didn't try to claim they were looking out for my best interest. How refreshing it'd be to see a politician honest enough to admit he's dishonest.
Jarod Kintz
#93. All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
Kate Burridge
#94. Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to the ears. It's truth in an otherwise dishonest world.
Moryah DeMott
#95. 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
#96. Everyone stumbles through it all the same; the main difference lies not in the lack of dysfunction but in the desire to be dishonest about it. Every family has problems, but only some let you see them. The rest just keep their chaos behind closed doors and out of conversation.
Kevin Breel
#97. I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it diminishes the presidency.
Mitt Romney
#98. 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
#99. There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#100. Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all.
Crystal Woods
