Top 194 Dishonesty Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

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

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

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

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

I'm a guy who is easy to get along with, and I'll put up with a lot of things. But not dishonesty.

Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

On both sides of the Atlantic, politics has come to be dominated by vitriolic name-calling and pervasive dishonesty.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

The level of dishonesty is out of control.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

Do we understand the gravity of the sin of dishonesty? It is not only unchristian, it is anti-Christian...it is anti-Christ! Whether it be lying, or cheating, or robbery or deception; whether it is in the home, in business, in sports, or in the classroom; dishonesty is completely foreign to the teachings of Jesus.

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

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

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

I can't handle dishonesty; I like integrity in people and for me, that's very important in a man.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn't tear you apart inside like dishonesty.

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

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

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

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

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

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

There's so much dishonesty with motherhood in general... The truth is it's just a lot of embarrassing, humiliating moments.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.