Dishonesty Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Dishonesty

Please enjoy these Dishonesty Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact
degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
- Stephen Leacock

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself,
were it possible.
- George Bancroft

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
- John Steinbeck

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
- Abu Bakr

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty;
inaccuracy,
of dishonesty.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies;
history has no place for them.
- Norodom Sihanouk

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

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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

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising
has proved very unprofitable.
- Leo Burnett

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery,
homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
- Jerry Falwell

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
- Plato

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

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

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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff,
where you don't want to misrepresent yourself.
It would be dishonest.
- Mark Strand

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

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars,
and wear their guitar as a badge.
- Pete Waterman

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent
to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not
allow his own wife to buy.
- David Ogilvy

Most of us believe that we have
been betrayed by someone outside of us -
in other words someone has done something to hurt us,
been dishonest or broken a promise made:
some trust in some concept was broken.
Indeed someone may have taken an action
that took only their needs into consideration,
they may have not followed through on a promise made,
and they may have not told you the truth.
But their actions have nothing to do with you
and have everything to do with them.
That's why no one can do anything TO you.
They can take actions that involve you that you may not like -
according to your point of view.
But you are not a victim, no way, no how.
- Sheri Rosenthal

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart,
free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
- Thomas Carlyle

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

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Nothing is often a good thing to say,
and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant

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

I'm not going to let people get away with either a
dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking
about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
- Dan Abrams

Sure there are dishonest men in local government.
But there are dishonest men in national government too.
- Richard M. Nixon

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying
to go back and mess with the past.
- Len Wein

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest.
That would seriously interfere with business.
- Clarence Darrow

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification,
and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
- Dario Fo

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others,
no matter if he occupies a throne.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism
are between hard working people and idlers and between
honest people and dishonest people.
- Slobodan Milosevic

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.
- Leonard Baskin

A composite is a euphemism for a lie.
It's disorderly.
It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
- Fred W. Friendly

We do many things at the federal level that would be
considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
- Donald T. Regan

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because
I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality
of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.
- Keith Miller

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment,
the other for all time.
- Chilon

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest.
Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
- Johnny Depp

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks,
I think it would be dishonest.
- Eric Bogosian

Political advertising ought to be stopped.
It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left.
It's totally dishonest.
- David Ogilvy

Anger cannot be dishonest.
- Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder,
and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order,
achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order
that is struggling to exist and to be served.
- Jane Jacobs

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

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth.
But the case last studied suggests the question how
accurately the law operates in practice.
May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in
its working as to give a dishonest result?
- John Bates Clark

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with
all the facts and judge the decisions that were made
with almost none of the facts,
or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud
of endless speculation of what might happen.
- Norm Coleman

Italians know about human nature - they understand
human nature perhaps better than anyone else does.
They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy
and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it;
to work around it.
- Donna Leon

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

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

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

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm
done from the mere transfer of possession;
he may not feel the loss,
or it may prevent him from using the money badly.
But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man,
that I make myself dishonest.
- William Kingdon Clifford

The most dangerous man to any government is the man
who is able to think things out...
without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the
government he lives under is dishonest,
insane, intolerable.
- H. L. Mencken

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr

To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

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