Dishonest Quotes

208 Dishonest quotes by 176 unique authors

She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things. — Jhumpa Lahiri
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern) — Oscar Wilde
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. — Leo Tolstoy
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… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows… — Ayn Rand
It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one… — Nora Roberts
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind. — Veronica Roth
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
She was incurably dishonest. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated… — Ayn Rand
We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re… — Ken Follett
Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an… — Diana Wynne Jones
Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to… — Dan Ariely
However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It… — Brandon Sanderson
It’s not that I’ve been dishonest, it’s just that I loathe reality. — Lady Gaga
If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are… — Stefan Molyneux
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and… — Seymour Papert
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their… — Seymour Papert
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if… — Bruce Schneier
My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil… — John B. S. Haldane
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but… — Kapil Dev
I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it… — Mitt Romney
I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed… — Jonathan Dimbleby

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