Dishonesty Quotes

It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, ...

If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not...

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty,...

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupul...

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affa...

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afr...

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies ...

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty an...

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expec...

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing th...

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice c...

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

She had never been able to tolerate dishonesty, which she thought threatened the very heart of relat...

Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing ...

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesti...

If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other ai...

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they inven...

Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had bee...

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish every...

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are ...

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' wh...