Dishonesty Quotes

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Government, Fall

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato

Honesty, Less, Profitable

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

Trust, Men, Bad

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
Norodom Sihanouk

Time, History, Place

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock

Trust, Men, Another

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Honesty, Brother, Twin

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck

Stupidity, Word, Both

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Abu Bakr

Truth, Greatest, Honesty

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann

Time, Money, Person

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
George Bancroft

God, Possible, Himself

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
Todd Rundgren

Sense, Tell, Everyone

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
Jerry Falwell

Character, Blame, Flaws

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
Benjamin Carson

Politics, Political, Honest

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo

Government, Business, Job

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.
Leo Burnett

Moral, Issue, Regardless

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Whatever, Order, Achieve

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.
James McGreevey

Best, Worth, Less

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.
Eric Alterman

Strong, Care, Democracy

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.
David Arquette

Work, Business, Lie

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