Quotes on Dishonesty

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

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

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 and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

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

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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.

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 exactly that: dishonest.

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.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.