Dishonesty quotes

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

#Honesty #Dishonesty #Truth Is

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.
-- Albert Camus

#Eczema #Fancy #Dishonesty

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.
-- Celia Green

#Dishonesty #Clarity

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
-- Don Marquis

#Honesty #Dishonesty #Good Things

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.
-- Emily Post

#Lying #Dishonesty #Found

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
-- Fanny Fern

#Mean #Morality #Dishonesty

Truth exists; only lies are invented.
-- Georges Braque

#Truth #Lying #Dishonesty

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#Dishonesty #Compromise

Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.
-- James A. Baldwin

#Inability #Emotion #Dishonesty

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

#Believe #Character #Dishonesty

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

#Titles #Degrees #Dishonesty

There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Bullying #Thinking #Dishonesty

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Thieves #Dishonesty #Cry

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.
-- Laurence Sterne

#Vices #Dishonesty #Murder

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
-- Leo Tolstoy

#Pride #Stupidity #Dishonesty

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

#Lying #Deceit #Dishonesty

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

#Lying #Dishonesty #Speak

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.
-- Sue Grafton

#Years #Population #Dishonesty

Honesty is something you can't wear out.
-- Waylon Jennings

#Motivational #Honesty #Dishonesty

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
-- Samuel Butler

#Lying #Analogies #Dishonesty

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
-- Adlai Stevenson I

#Lying #Dishonesty #Helping

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.
-- Melissa Rauch

#Dishonesty #Vulnerable #Feels

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.
-- The Edge

#Trying #Dishonesty #Popularity