Dishonest Quotes

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
Johnny Depp

Trust, Honest, Watch

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy

Great, Truth, Enemy

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken

Government, Able, Lives

Anger cannot be dishonest.
Marcus Aurelius

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.
Ron Paul

Women, Men, Someone

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

Good, Nothing, Others

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Heart, Thought

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry Goldwater

Life, Family, Wife

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Others, Matter, Lives

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.
Roger Moore

Life, Good, Hope

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow

Business, Everything, Law

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

Men, Government, Sure

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
David Ogilvy

Political, Left, Ought

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
Jane Jacobs

Real, Order, Quality

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Nothing, Boring

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
Donna Leon

Work, Nature, Best

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
David Ogilvy

Wife, Agent, Urge

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 the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler

Power, Writing, Thinking

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.
Norm Coleman

Judge, Happen, Made

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding

Nature, Good, Men

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

Making, Possible, Avoid

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Chilon

Time, Pain, Moment

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
Len Wein

Past, Trying, Mess

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.
Josh Radnor

Age, Everyone, Write

I never did anything dishonest.
T. Boone Pickens

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
Kat Dennings

Someone, Tell, Actor

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, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
William Kingdon Clifford

Money, Great, Help

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
Dan Abrams

Away, Talking, Either

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
Mark Strand

Yourself, Writing, Point

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Dishonest Definition

Aristotle

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us