Quotes About Dishonesty

#1. Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

Eric Alterman

#2. Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Sigmund Freud

#3. 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

#4. Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

#5. What is the good of a man being honest in his worship of dishonesty?

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Clothing is dishonesty in its purest form.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

O. Henry

#8. We've all become so conscious of how we'll be perceived and so frightened to
possibly offend someone that we've filtered ourselves to what borders on dishonesty. Sure, as my wife constantly reminds me, you don't have to say everything you think; but when did speaking plainly become such a sin?

Aaron Blaylock

#9. There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does

Milton Friedman

#10. Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.

Billy Graham

#11. In his case, what had been hardness became cruelty, while a tendency to bluff became plain dishonesty. He often lied without hesitation and assumed that others lied to him.

William L. Shirer

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

Amy Tan

#13. This culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

Tullian Tchividjian

#14. 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

#15. Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#16. The despicable crone known as Mombi stands accused of high witchery, gross dishonesty, untold crimes against monkeys, outrageous trespassing, and general unpleasantness. Also, she is extremely unattractive. Miss Amy, do you speak for the witch?

Danielle Paige

#17. My claims were justified in all men's sight; I put my trust in equity and right; Yet, to my horror and the world's disgrace, Justice is mocked, and I have lost my case! A scoundrel whose dishonesty is notorious Emerges from another lie victorious!

Moliere

#18. Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

Celia Green

#19. Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

George Carlin

#20. If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.

Russell Brand

#21. We called one's lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one's whole situation ... We don't want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives.

Ernest Becker

#22. By 'aha' she means 'one minute' Stephano claims he knows nothing about snakes, the next he claims he is an expert! By 'aha' she means 'Stephano has been lying to us'. By 'aha' she means 'we've finally exposed his dishonesty to you'! By 'aha' she means 'aha'!

Lemony Snicket

#23. As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.

Ellen G. White

#24. I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

David Arquette

#25. There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

Leonard Read

#26. He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.

Elizabeth Strout

#27. Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

Dorothy Parker

#28. My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

John Cullum

#29. I might point out that the rich do not so much buy honesty as curtains to cover dishonesty.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

E.W. Howe

#31. A rich man is an honest man
no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.

Daniel Defoe

#32. 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

#33. The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

Selena Roberts

#34. What happens when you narrow your definition to what is convenient, or what is fashionable, or what is expected, is dishonesty by silence.

Audre Lorde

#35. Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

Michael Schudson

#36. There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Benjamin Franklin

#37. Finn was an enigma wrapped in a riddle coated in misdirection. He was a burrito of dishonesty.

Molly Harper

#38. Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Dalton Trumbo

#39. Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

Mao Zedong

#40. Of evils current upon earth The worst is money. Money 'tis that sacks Cities, and drives men forth from hearth and home; Warps and seduces native innocence, And breeds a habit of dishonesty.

Sophocles

#41. Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Abraham Maslow

#42. The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

A.B. Simpson

#43. 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

#44. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accept the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay-and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

Robert A. Heinlein

#45. People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead.

Dada Bhagwan

#46. But deep prayer, prolonged prayer, is a terrible mirror - kneel there long enough and everything shows. There's no way out of eventually seeing your phoniness and dishonesty.

Tim Farrington

#47. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#48. Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

Sarah Hall

#49. In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.

Joseph Butler

#50. It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

Bertrand Russell

#51. Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire ... .
... .The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

Walter Kaufmann

#52. Its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive him-self'.

Richard Dawkins

#53. Success consists in obtaining the largest number of marks with the strictest economy of knowledge. It is a deliberate cultivation of disloyalty to truth, of intellectual dishonesty, of a foolish imposition by which the mind is encouraged to rob itself.

Anonymous

#54. Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

Thomas Carlyle

#55. It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#56. A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

Ayn Rand

#57. Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Neil Kinnock

#58. A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.

John Steinbeck

#59. She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Samuel Richardson

#60. In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.

Dan Ariely

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#64. She descended the steps two at a time, pushed away the gloom and counted the cracks in the cobbled road, trying to block out the cold and the stench of dishonesty bred in men.

Sharon Robards

#65. I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

Ken Livingstone

#66. The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

Tim LaHaye

#67. So when you hear about Hillary's [Clinton] dishonesty, or the emails, or taking millions from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern dictatorships - remember, this is not about politics.

Newt Gingrich

#68. Being able to tell the truth about our own lack of personal integrity has integrity to it. The key to being able to deal with and lighten up about our own humanity is to get wholly honest about our dishonesty.

Lauren Handel Zander

#69. Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

Bobby Bowden

#70. The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

John Steinbeck

#71. Excellence reveals Integrity...
Mediocrity reveals the lack of it...
Dishonesty reveals the absence of it...

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#72. By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make - and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

Sam Harris

#73. Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Horace Mann

#74. Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

Luc De Clapiers

#75. What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.

Sylvia Plath

#76. But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.

Stefan Zweig

#77. It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

#78. Because it was the dishonesty on his face that intrigued me. I appreciated the ghosts that haunted him. The phantoms that shadowed his eyes even as they danced and danced and danced.

A Meredith Walters

#79. I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.

James McGreevey

#80. Because the neocortex (the thinking brain) is capable of dishonesty, it is not a good source of reliable or accurate information (Ost, 2006, 259

Joe Navarro

#81. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Dickens

#82. 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

#83. Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#84. Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

George Bancroft

#85. It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty ... and how few by dishonesty.

Noel Coward

#86. [S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is no moral difference between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax or any other social program.

Leonard Read

#87. in this age of great ambiguity and relentless change, so many people cut "ethical corners". Too many people think that dishonesty will get them ahead.

Robin S. Sharma

#88. To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#89. We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.

Gary Hopkins

#90. Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.

Robert Greene

#91. The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

#92. renounce it as soon as it comes to mind - renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all.

Oswald Chambers

#93. You're lying to me, aren't you?" "Pretty much, yeah." "Thanks for being honest about your dishonesty.

David Baldacci

#94. as in the first experiment, the individuals who were more creative also had higher levels of dishonesty. Intelligence, however, wasn't correlated to any degree with dishonesty.

Dan Ariely

#95. Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

Karen Marie Moning

#96. Once dishonesty is introduced, distrust becomes the hallmark of future dealings or associations.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

#97. The most dangerous person ever to deceive is yourself, for in doing so you destroy your basis for honesty. Honesty is the foundation of intelligence, while dishonesty is the foundation of stupidity.

Orest Stocco

#98. We criticise corruption in others, but are blind to our own dishonesty. We hate others who do wrong and commit crimes, blithely ignoring our own misdeeds, big and small. We vehemently blame Raavan for all our ills, refusing to acknowledge that we created the mess we find ourselves in.

Amish Tripathi

#99. The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

Salmon P. Chase

#100. Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato