Dishonest Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

— Ayn Rand

“If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a…

— Shannon McKenna

“She had learned propriety, which was the same as saying she had learned to trust only herself.”

— Kristin Cashore

She was incurably dishonest.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

— Susan Abulhawa

“She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand—and that…

— Patricia Strefling

“All those years were now seeming like a betrayal of what she really was. While her body, her needs, her emotions–all of herself–had been…

— Doris Lessing

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they…

— Jeffery Deaver

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being…

— Paulo Coelho

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“And when she said, Father, I love you , she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and truthful enough…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for…

— Virginia Woolf