Dishonest Quotes
208 quotes by 183 authors
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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…
— Raymond Chandler
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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,…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.
— David Ogilvy
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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
— Mark Twain
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be…
— Samuel Smiles
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they…
— Ayn Rand
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Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had…
— Bill Cosby
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We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
— Donald T. Regan
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I had an abortion when I was 16. Because that's what I should have done. Otherwise I would now have a 20-year-old kid. Anyway, those…
— Chelsea Handler
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Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest…
— Leo Kadanoff
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Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features…
— William Grant Bangerter
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The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.
— Umar
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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising…
— Russell Lynes
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