Quotes About Dishonesty And Lies

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

Norodom Sihanouk

#2. half truths equal whole lies

Fred Munoz

#3. Not till we are completely lost or turned around ... do we begin to find ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune ... has already brought him acquittal!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. The core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed

Jonathon Porritt

#6. A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.

Fred Munoz

#7. Orphans have many parents.

Adriana Trigiani

#8. A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

Ted Dekker

#9. I'm completely demanding an autopsy on my grandmother's brain when she's dead so I can see what I'm in for as I age.

Meg Cabot

#10. Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of just this once.

Clayton M Christensen

#11. Oh, Dex,"Rebecca chided from beside me, bringing me back to reality. "Put your shirt back on. Are you trying to turn me straight or something?

Karina Halle

#12. He loved the way she smelled in the mornings; he liked to sniff at her shoulders or her throat.

Larry McMurtry

#13. The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies.

Fred Munoz

#14. You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies

Fred Munoz

#15. It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest.

Brutus Hamilton

#16. If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Victor Hugo

#17. Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Criss Jami

#18. That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

Orison Swett Marden

#20. Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.

Gary Hopkins

#21. But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.

Siri Hustvedt

#22. That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

Amy Tan

#23. The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.

Andrew Klavan

#24. There was nothing she would ever change about him , except for who he thought she was.

R.J. Groves

#25. I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Oscar Wilde

#26. Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful

Gregory Hill

#27. I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.

Tariq Ramadan

#29. Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

#30. The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

Criss Jami

#31. Who cares what most men do? I say. He looks startled. Clearly the idea of not giving a shit has failed to occur to him.

Charlotte Stein

#32. A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18

Rudyard Kipling

#33. The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

#34. Relationships based on dishonesty, lies,
Secrets and cheats R not only predicted
to fail but also a waste of precious time
and energie! U can't fool yourself 4ever!

Lily Amis

#35. There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

Todd Rundgren

#36. I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

Bobby Fischer