quotes about Dishonesty
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
-- Abu Bakr -
Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.
-- Albert Camus -
Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.
-- Celia GreenSource : "The Decline and Fall of Science". Book by Celia Green, 1976.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
-- Don Marquis -
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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 -
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
-- Fanny Fern -
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
-- Georges BraqueSource : Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 (Day and Night, Notebooks, 1952) p. 20
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It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. -
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Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.
-- James A. Baldwin -
I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
-- Jerry Falwell -
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 JamisonSource : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
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There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.
-- Lance Armstrong -
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[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder -
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 -
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 -
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
-- Norodom SihanoukSource : "The Fantasy of King Sihanouk" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2012.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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 -
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
-- Samuel Butler -
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
-- Adlai Stevenson I -
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 EdgeSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com