Top 359 Dishonest Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

She was incurably dishonest.

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

I can't forgive a woman who is irresponsible and dishonest

God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it - for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness?

A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

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

Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest will be honest as long as the conditions are right - but if they are tempted enough, they'll be dishonest too. Locks won't protect you from the thieves, who can get in your house if they really want to. They will only protect you from the mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock".

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if society makes its dishonest minority too small, it stifles dissent as well as common crime.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.

Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.

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

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.

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

I wish the press was fair. They're really dishonest. The media is really dishonest. It's incredible.

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

It’s not that I’ve been dishonest, it’s just that I loathe reality.

The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.

Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features are fractured and without anchor. A dishonest person may be kind, witty, and very capable, but the strength of character simply isn't there. Honesty does not come by degrees. A person is either all honest or he is dishonest. You can be true or you can be false, but you can't be both at the same time.

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.

You don't have to be dishonest to communicate the gospel.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

Hillary Clinton is a very dishonest person.

I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

I'd rather be honest and lose than be dishonest and win

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.

Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

Hillary Clinton is a very dishonest person, probably the most dishonest person ever to run for the office of president.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

A dishonest yes is a no to yourself.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and the idlers, the supporters and the supported, the honest and the dishonest. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the unpaid labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. All laborers should be brothers.

All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier

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

I never did anything dishonest.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

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.

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

The media are very dishonest. In fact, in covering my comments, the dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people - the fake news. They dropped off the word "fake." And all of the sudden, the story became, the media is the enemy. They take the word "fake" out, and now I'm saying, oh, no, this is no good. But that's the way they are. So I'm not against the media. I'm not against the press. I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them. And I tell you, I love good stories, but we won't - I don't get too many of them.

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.