Dishonesty Quotes

315 Dishonesty quotes by 241 unique authors

Punctuality is the thief of time — Oscar Wilde
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. — Khaled Hosseini
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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 is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. — Khaled Hosseini
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble… — Victor Hugo
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste… — Walter Kaufmann
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. — Euripides
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not… — Ayn Rand
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something… — David Foster Wallace
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. — Thomas Jefferson
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others. — Ayn Rand
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ… — Howard Gardner
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. — Sigmund Freud
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is… — Alain de Botton
This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that… — John D. MacDonald
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets. — Amy Tan
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace. — M.J. Rose
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the… — Kathryn Stockett
If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love! — Emilie Autumn
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once. — Clayton Christensen
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. — Dorothy Allison
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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